De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

De Profundis (“from the depths”) is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to “Bosie” (Lord Alfred Douglas). Wilde wrote the letter between January and March 1897, close to the end of his imprisonment. Wilde entrusted the manuscript to the journalist Robert Ross. He published the letter in 1905, five years after Wilde’s death, giving it the title “De Profundis” from Psalm 130.