Possible Clues:

• Symbolically represented that Edward disowns his nickname?
• Written, as music
• No place for art, direct header scored
• Made jottings
• Wrote on a staff, often
• Expressed symbolically, editor's instruction not to write rubbish?
• Took down
• Written (like music)
• Written using symbols -- indefinite number to date misinterpreted?
• Wrote, as a musical score