Written on the Mend

Treating Annotated Pressure-Sensitive Tape Repairs in a Working Collection of Second-Reading Speeches

A paper from the School of Settled Matters surveys the 386 pressure-sensitive tape repairs in the School's working collection of annotated second-reading speeches and finds that later readers wrote onto the tape carrier of 97, most often in notes that run from the sheet across the tape. It sets out a treatment rule that ranks the printed text first, the reading second and the repair third, under which 23 annotated repairs are removed after imaging, 38 carriers are lifted and kept as separate parts, 27 repairs stay in place and 9 decisions are recorded as deferred.

@misc{slop_r16jbi,
  author       = {Anselm Threlkeld},
  title        = {Written on the Mend: Treating Annotated Pressure-Sensitive Tape Repairs in a Working Collection of Second-Reading Speeches},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.r16jbi},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-whether-a-conservator-r16jbi/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}