Transcriber's Notes

The errata listed in the back of the book are original errata from the print edition. This appears to be a first edition, so I am not sure why it contains errata in the first place.

The cover of the original print copy is damaged; as a result, some of the text from the cover has been restored using guess work.

Hand-written note on the title page not included: "Rotterdam, 23./24. December 1901."

Variant spellings that are nevertheless correct and used consistenly: Shakspeare for Shakespeare, Appingadam for Appingedam.

The book part "Op zee" has no title page, unlike the three other parts (De Slamat, Minnebrieven, and Blijspel).

004.png: Restored "Villibald" (first letter partially obscured by a sticker) to "Willibald."

014.png: Normalised a left-pointing guillemet to a right-pointing one: »God willing".

031.png: Normalised "elkâar" to "elkaâr" (short for "elkander"). See also the note for scan 109.png.

046.png: Normalised a lower double quote to a right-pointing guillemet: »wee mij!".

054.png: May have an extraneous double quote mark; this is the same in the print version. I left it like this, because it wasn't entirely clear what the author was trying to say.

057.png: Changed "mij" to "my" in "I know that my Redeemer liveth" after consulting the official Westminster Abbey website.

081.png: Inserted a space in "ochtend-en", resulting in "ochtend- en middagdienst" (translation: morning- and afternoon-service).

094.png: changed "parat" to "paraît" in "mais d'aussi loin qu'il paraît."

105.png: This page contains what the author called a Malay lullaby. The f-sharp in the fifth bar of this song sounds dissonant to Western ears. Considering that the rest of the tune follows the Western I-IV-V (tonic, sub-dominant, dominant) chord progression, such as is used in rock music, folk songs, and indeed lullabies, it is likely that this is a Western song, contrary to the author's claim. In which case the F-sharp should probably be replaced by an E. In the Lilypond source code this can be achieved by replacing "fis''4" by "e''4". However, since I am not sure, I've left the dissonant in.

105.png: The song is called the nanny's "nonna, nina": this is likely to be word play. The Italian for "lullaby" is "ninna nanna," and throughout the book the author refers to young women as "nonna," Italian for "grandmother," "nana." (Baboe is Dutch phonetic spelling for the Malay word for "native nanny"). Young men and boys are often referred to as "sinjo"s.

109.png: Normalised "elkâar" to "elkaâr" (short for "elkander"). See also the note for scan 031.png.

127.png, 135.png, 167.png: Normalised "ë" to "Ë" in "GABRIËL."

138.png: Left out what appeared to be a grave accent on the "n" in "Toean"; the accent glyph looks completely different from the one in "Rèsiden," and I assume it's just a small printing error. Not to mention that everywhere else "Toean" is spelled without an accent.

147.png: I assume the abbreviation "ll" stands for "letterlijk."

159.png: Corrected footnote number from "2" to "1."

182.png: Inserted a thought-break because that seemed to match earlier instances of the following line ("Weet ge 't nog, liefste mijn — ?").

182.png: a previous owner scratched a word so badly with a pencil, that the paper was torn. I am guessing here that the word between "uw" and "oogjes" is "blauwe" (resulting in the Dutch for "your blue eyes").

189.png: Printer's error fixed: "CCARA" to "CLARA."

190.png: Presumed printer's error fixed: "ten min-" to "ten minste" (transl. "at least").

199.png: Normalised the abbreviation "Clar." to "Clara".

224.png: Normalised "Joducus" to "Judocus."

225.png: Was numbered 121 instead of 221 in the print version.

228.png: Normalised: added a "." to "Clara."

232.png (back cover): stage tape to hold the cover together obscured part of the text; the proofreaders tried to guess in every instance what the text had said.

Page number 1 (001.png) corresponds with the front cover of the printed book. Page numbers 2 - 4 (002.png - 004.png) correspond with pages 3, 4 and 5 of the printed book (page 2 was blank). Page number 5 (005.png) corresponds with page 7 of the printed book (page 6 was blank), and all following pages are numbered accordingly, even the blank pages, with the exception of the blank one- and two-but-last pages of the printed book.

The author/typesetter liberally used long dashes either filled out to the end of the line, or starting on the next line where they stopped on the previous one. I have not followed this formatting practice for the eBook, but elected instead to retain the exact number of dashes from the printed book.