In a recent number of the Journal (July, 1899, p. 671 seq.) I briefly described a manuscript, now in my possession, of the Risāalatu'l-Ghufrān, and promised to give some further account of it at an early date. The work in question is mentioned by Safadil and probably, as I have shown, by Ḥājī Khalīfa. Dhahabī, in his list of Abū'l-'Alā's writings, includes it tacitly under the heading dīvānu'l-rasā'il, but he makes ample amends by setting it in the very forefront of his article on Abū'l-'Alā, which begins: