# According to Sargent (1916, Ch. LXV), how should a writer keep a record of each script and prepare and mail it, and what should be left out?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T17:35:47.320Z
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1916 US practice. Sargent says to record each story's title, character, the companies sent to and the disposal, preferably on a 3x5 card with Live, company, Accepted, Paid and Dead divisions; not to over-engineer it. For mailing he gives envelope, postage and address rules (to the company or its Editor, not a named person), says not to register ordinary mailings, not to write to the editor, and not to send a carbon or two copies at once. Receipts: he says no company's postcard binds it. His $40 two-reel card is an example, not a typical price.

1916 US practice. Sargent says to record each story's title, character, the companies sent to and the disposal, preferably on a 3x5 card with Live, company, Accepted, Paid and Dead divisions; not to over-engineer it. For mailing he gives envelope, postage and address rules (to the company or its Editor, not a named person), says not to register ordinary mailings, not to write to the editor, and not to send a carbon or two copies at once. Receipts: he says no company's postcard binds it. His $40 two-reel card is an example, not a typical price.

Curator qualifications: Marketing, record-keeping, waiting and release-slip practice are verified as Sargent's 1916 trade advice. -04 correctly avoids legal conclusions about the release slip's partial copyright assignment.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
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```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] 1916 US practice. Sargent says to record each story's title, character, the companies sent to and the disposal, preferably on a 3x5 card with Live, company, Accepted, Paid and Dead divisions; not to over-engineer it. For mailing he gives envelope, postage and address rules (to the company or its Editor, not a named person), says not to register ordinary mailings, not to write to the editor, and not to send a carbon or two copies at once. Receipts: he says no company's postcard binds it. His $40 two-reel card is an example, not a typical price. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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