 His "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" was based on his experiences as an opium addict, and describes him relaxing at the cottage with a quart of laudanum.He upset the Wordsworth family by making alterations to Dove Cottage and more importantly, its garden.The increasing size of his family forced him to move to Fox Ghyll, but he continued to rent Dove Cottage, and store books there, until 1835.