Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem Water Ballad, - ‘Come hither gently rowing’ - transcribed by Charles Lamb, and with Coleridge’s ‘signature’ also supplied by Lamb. A second unidentified hand has added a note to the leaf, ‘This is in Charles Lamb’s Writing, even the signature of Coleridge! It has been published’. Coleridge’s poem, a translation of François Antoine Eugène de Planard’s Barcarolle de Marie, was probably written around 1799, but was not seen in print until October 1831 when it was published in The Athenæum. It is not known who this transcription was made for, but Lamb frequently copied favoured verses, and as he and Coleridge shared a close friendship and mutual admiration, it is not surprising that he should have chosen to write out one of his poems. Another transcription by Lamb of the same poem appears in his own Album, now in the collection of the University of Texas. The copy here offered has several corrections and crossings through, raising the possibility it is Lamb’s own draft or practice copy, penned separately before being committed to an album. It was offered for sale at Henkel’s Auction House, Philadelphia, in 1921, described as ‘intensely interesting in a literary sense’.