Illustrations have been moved slightly to coincide with the mention of the person named in the caption. The hyperlinks in the List of Portraits have been changed to reflect this movement. The page numbers in that list have not been changed.

This book includes a lot of dialect, which often looks misspelled but was intentionally written that way. Therefore, some irregularities that might be errors have not been corrected in order to preserve author intent. Name variants (mostly occurring in the index) also have not been corrected. However, obvious errors have been corrected, and punctuation has been standardized where appropriate.