The excerpt is a legal notice accompanying the electronic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. It identifies the edition as part of the Pennsylvania State University Electronic Classics Series, edited by faculty member Jim Manis. The notice disclaims any liability for the document’s content or for its electronic delivery, explicitly stating that neither the university, the editor, nor Sony Connect Inc. (or its affiliates) are responsible. Copyright claims are assigned to Sony Connect Inc. (2007) and Pennsylvania State University (2004), and the publication’s ISBN is 978-1-4340-0086-6.