# After mailing a photoplay script in 1919, how did Esenwein and Leeds say to handle rejection, resubmission, waiting and record-keeping?

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1919 US trade advice. Chapter XXI says to send a returned script out again at once to another company, keep going well beyond three or four rejections, check each time whether it can be improved, and recopy it when worn. Wait before inquiring (two months, then write briefly and courteously), keep a record of each script sent with a seven-column form, accept the printed rejection slip without humiliation and never answer a rejection with a petulant letter. The two-month figure and 'nearly all companies report' are the authors' claims without source.

1919 US trade advice. Chapter XXI says to send a returned script out again at once to another company, keep going well beyond three or four rejections, check each time whether it can be improved, and recopy it when worn. Wait before inquiring (two months, then write briefly and courteously), keep a record of each script sent with a seven-column form, accept the printed rejection slip without humiliation and never answer a rejection with a petulant letter. The two-month figure and 'nearly all companies report' are the authors' claims without source.

Curator qualifications: The two-month rule is advice, not a reported company policy. The record form's two Date columns are ambiguous, as the worker notes.

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      "note": "Ch. XXI rejection passage"
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```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] 1919 US trade advice. Chapter XXI says to send a returned script out again at once to another company, keep going well beyond three or four rejections, check each time whether it can be improved, and recopy it when worn. Wait before inquiring (two months, then write briefly and courteously), keep a record of each script sent with a seven-column form, accept the printed rejection slip without humiliation and never answer a rejection with a petulant letter. The two-month figure and 'nearly all companies report' are the authors' claims without source. · locator: Ch. XXI rejection passage · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17903/pg17903.txt

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