Jim's is one of the several spoken dialects called deliberate in a prefatory note.

The best description of the play's style can be found in Strindberg's prefatory note:

Long as the editor cut out some coarse passages and wrote a short prefatory note for the play.

And yet his prefatory note begins, "I wrote these poems."

(2000), together with a new introduction and many prefatory notes.

Hughes' prefatory note for the book explained his intentions in writing the collection:

I did it in a prefatory note to a book of mine called Tom Sawyer.

In a prefatory note to that volume, I wrote:

Her prefatory notes are dry, only now and then lighting up with echoes of "Personal History."

In a prefatory note, he writes that Africa "is too large to describe.