diff --git a/Foundation/include/Poco/Buffer.h b/Foundation/include/Poco/Buffer.h
index 567072bd4..34981e556 100644
--- a/Foundation/include/Poco/Buffer.h
+++ b/Foundation/include/Poco/Buffer.h
@@ -34,6 +34,21 @@ class Buffer
 	///
 	/// This class is useful everywhere where a temporary buffer
 	/// is needed.
+	///
+	/// Note: A Buffer has both a size and a capacity, similar to
+	/// std::vector and std::string. However, upon creation of the
+	/// Buffer, the size always equals the capacity (provided via the
+	/// length argument of the constructor), as the Buffer is meant
+	/// to be filled by directly writing to its contents,
+	/// i.e., by passing the pointer to the first element
+	/// of the buffer obtained via begin() to a function expecting
+	/// a pointer to a buffer.
+	///
+	/// Therefore, calling append() on a newly created Buffer will
+	/// always expand the buffer size and capacity.
+	/// If you need to create a Buffer and want to write data to it
+	/// by calling append(), the correct steps are to first create
+	/// the Buffer, then call resize(0), and then call append().
 {
 public:
 	Buffer(std::size_t length):