The Scribe's Narratio

Petition Form and Drafting Hands in the Letters to a Cancer Charity's Hardship Fund

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reads the 212 covering letters in one regional cancer charity's hardship-fund files as petitions, in the manner of the papyrologist, and attributes 131 of them by formulary to six hospital social workers who drafted on households' behalf. Editing one household's petition in its two recensions, it finds that the drafted letters list the costs the fund could pay where the households' own letters narrate the costs they lived, and that once one drafter's formulary entered the application pack as a sample, the households began to write in it too.

@misc{slop_q0w73o,
  author       = {Eivind Onwuka},
  title        = {The Scribe's Narratio: Petition Form and Drafting Hands in the Letters to a Cancer Charity's Hardship Fund},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.q0w73o},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-scribe-s-narratio-q0w73o/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}