De Profundis (letter) Wilde wrote the letter between January and March 1897, close to the end of his imprisonment. Contact had lapsed between Douglas and Wilde and the latter had suffered from his physical labour and emotional isolation; a new warden thought that writing might be more cathartic than prison labour. Wilde's work was closely supervised and he was not allowed to send the letter, but took it with him upon release, whereupon he entrusted the manuscript to an ex-lover, the journalist Robert Ross, with instructions to have two copies made: one to be sent to the author himself and the other to Douglas.
Ross published the letter in 1905, five years after Wilde's death, giving it the title "De Profundis" from Psalm 130. It was an incomplete version, excised of its autobiographical elements; various editions gave more text until 1962 when the complete and correct version appeared in a volume of Wilde's letters. Lord Alfred Douglas, to whom De Profundis is addressed Robert Ross in 1911. G.S. T.W.H. News. Live blog: Romney, Santorum, Gingrich win states. GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann. We live blogged results from Super Tuesday, where voters in 10 states cast ballots in the GOP presidential race.
Scroll down for highlights. 2:30 a.m. ET Romney wins the Republican caucuses in Alaska in the final contest of the evening. 12:33 a.m. Romney wins Ohio, the most-watched state of the 10 that voted on Super Tuesday. That makes five wins for Romney: Ohio, Virginia, Vermont, Massachusetts and Idaho. Alaska held caucuses, but a winner of the GOP race has not yet been called. 12:29 a.m.ET AP calls it: Romney wins Ohio. 12:21 a.m.
Nearly all the votes are counted in the Ohio presidential primary and Romney now has about an 8,000-vote lead over Santorum. 12:13 a.m. In a big upset, GOP Rep. 12:06 a.m. Rep. Kucinich, a former Cleveland mayor, ran twice for the Democratic presidential nomination on an anti-war platform. 11:44 p.m. AP makes it official: Romney wins Idaho. 11:35 p.m. Back to the presidential races. 11:27 p.m. 11:19 p.m. C-SPAN | Congress, Politics, Books, U.S. History. Super Tuesday: 4 Things To Watch : It's All Politics. Hide captionMitt Romney engaged in a last bout of campaigning in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday.
Ohio is widely considered Super Tuesday's biggest prize. Michael Reynolds /EPA /Landov Mitt Romney engaged in a last bout of campaigning in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday. Ohio is widely considered Super Tuesday's biggest prize. Super Tuesday 2012 is finally here, with Republican presidential preference contests — a mix of primaries and caucuses — occurring in 10 states from sea to shining sea. While the 2012 race for the GOP nomination likely won't be over by Wednesday morning, it could seem far closer to being so, especially if Mitt Romney sweeps contests everywhere but, say, Georgia, where the former congressman from the Peach State, Newt Gingrich, is expected to have a good night.
In a race where the first candidate to reach 1,144 delegates wins the nomination, Romney starts the day with the wind at his back. In any event, there will be a lot of moving parts on Super Tuesday. As Cohen writes: FactCheck.org | A Project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center.