# De Profundis is written in Reading Gaol in 1897 as a long prison letter; the 1905 abridgement is later and is not this instrument

Date: 1897

## The fact

[Oscar Wilde](/people/oscar-wilde)’s documented role is: He wrote the letter to Douglas in prison. Warders and later Ross share transmission. He did not typeset 1905. Do not date 1905 as his act. Do not merge with the 1898 Ballad. Letter versus poem. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Oscar Wilde's documented role is: He wrote the letter to Douglas in prison. Warders and later Ross share transmission. He did not typeset 1905.

## Context

Reading Gaol, last months before May release. Bosie is the addressee. Ross later prints an abridgement. Named others on the file: Lord Alfred Douglas as addressee; Robert Ross as later carrier; unnamed warders. The public setting is the file around 1897-03-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays De Profundis is written in Reading Gaol in 1897 as a long prison letter; the 1905 abridgement is later and is not this instrument. The setting of De Profundis is written in Reading Gaol in 1897 as a long prison letter; the 1905 abridgement is later and is not this instrument is the public file around 1897-03-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver justice-[judicial-independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion)-erosion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not date 1905 as his act. Do not merge with the 1898 Ballad. Letter versus poem. Mixed effects of De Profundis is written in Reading Gaol in 1897 as a long prison letter; the 1905 abridgement is later and is not this instrument are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Gutenberg’s public text and Britannica independently treat De Profundis as a Reading Gaol letter later printed. Official: Project Gutenberg — De Profundis (public-domain English) (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/902; Project Gutenberg). Independent: Britannica — Oscar Wilde (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Wilde; Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Project Gutenberg — De Profundis (public-domain English) (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/902; Project Gutenberg). Independent carrier: Britannica — Oscar Wilde (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Wilde; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Project Gutenberg — De Profundis (public-domain English) (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/902; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A prison-written public letter against the gaol’s soul-harm is a justice path. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Writing date 1897, not 1905 title page. Established: a sourced public record of De Profundis is written in Reading Gaol in 1897 as a long prison letter; the 1905 abridgement is later and is not this instrument under 1897-03-01. Established: a sourced public record of De Profundis is written in Reading Gaol in 1897 as a long prison letter; the 1905 abridgement is later and is not this instrument under 1897-03-01.

Shared responsibility is part of De Profundis is written in Reading Gaol in 1897 as a long prison letter; the 1905 abridgement is later and is not this instrument. Naming Oscar Wilde does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1897-03-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Oscar Wilde: https://factrail.ai/people/oscar-wilde

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/902
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Wilde

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/wil-de-profundis-1897