[Ex Libris S. T. C.][981:1]

This, Hannah Scollock! may have been the case; Your writing therefore I will not erase. But now this Book, once yours, belongs to me, The Morning Post's and Courier's S. T. C.;-- Elsewhere in College, knowledge, wit and scholarage To Friends and Public known as S. T. Coleridge. Witness hereto my hand, on Ashley Green, One thousand, twice four hundred, and fourteen Year of our Lord--and of the month November The fifteenth day, if right I do remember.

15th Nov. 1814. Ashley, Box, Bath.

First published in Lit. Rem., iii. 57. First collected P. and D. W., 1877, ii. 387.

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