Apparent printer's errors have been retained, unless stated below.

Missing page numbers are attributed to blank or unnumbered pages in the original text.

Punctuation, capitalization, accents and formatting markup have been made consistent.

Illustrations have been moved to be closer to their discussion in the text.

Bold and italicised text appeared in the original in fraktur. In these instances, images of the original fraktur appear directly before the occurrence in the text.

Page 71, "muscial" changed to "musical". (The boy's musical services would be at his command in return.)

Page 98, "Anzeige" changed to "Anzeiger". (The concert was advertised in the LÜneburger Anzeiger of May 7, the twentieth birthday anniversary of our Johannes:)

Page 145, "Den" chagned to "Dem". ('Dem FrÄulein Japha, zum Andenken an das Weihnachtsfest, 1853, als Vorbote des eigentlichen Gebers. R. Schumann')

Page 182, "cirsumstances" changed to "circumstances". (In spite of the melancholy circumstances that kept them at DÜsseldorf—and anxiety about Schumann was again increasing—the time was a happy one to the two young men, who passed many hours of the day in each other's society.)

In the midi representation of the first excerpt on Page 219, the first measure has been adjusted to ensure there are two beats in the bar by changing the sixteenth (semiquaver) rest into an eighth (quaver) rest.

In the midi representation of the second excerpt on Page 219, the fourth note in the second measure is played as an A? as in the music. Please note that some publications of this piece use an A? instead.

Footnote [6] originally referred to Chapter X. in Vol. II. However, as there is no Chapter X. in Vol. II., this has been updated to read Chapter XXI., which makes reference to the subject.