PREFACE FOR
a long time considerable curiosity
has been expressed
DE
of
script
known
to
about
PROFUNDIS,
be in
my
many
quires
other friends.
little
its
was the
existence
The book
introduction, I
manu-
possession,
author having mentioned to
the
which
re-
and scarcely
have only to record
any explanation. it was written by my friend during the last months of his imprisonment,
that
that
while
it
was the only work he wrote in prison, and the last work
in prose
he ever wrote.
(The 'Ballad
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