"Accession of the Text and Decay of Corporeal Editions: Examining Stauffer's, 'The Nineteenth-century Archive in the Digital Age'" offers a holistic approach to examining Andrew Stauffer’s defense of 19th century print preservation in university archives. This digital project presents a concise yet encompassing survey of the scholarly exigence for this article, Stauffer’s main points of argumentation, how this article has been elevated by its author for archival praxis, as well as how archival scholars might leverage Stauffer’s concepts to other theoretical and pedagogical areas of text and technologies studies. Moreover, the digital yet visually haptic qualities of this digital project, such as the porous-appearing canvas background and the tactile clicking and scrolling required to access the page, beg the user to engage with what information/user experiences are gained and what information/user experiences are lost when digitizing print texts like those produced in the 19th century.