# How did Sargent say the physical presentation of a script affected an editor's reading, which of these are his claims and which are examples, and what does the chapter give as support?

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Sargent first concedes that a good story on brown wrapping paper, or an idea on an envelope, can sell, then advises against relying on that. His own claims are that appearance affects both price and the care of consideration, that longhand and onion-skin paper are refused or detested, that thin paper, a smeared ribbon or a toy machine's imprint count against the writer, and that showy extras should be avoided. The chapter offers no named editor or count as support; the brown-paper and envelope statements are attributed to 'some authors and Editors'.

Sargent first concedes that a good story on brown wrapping paper, or an idea on an envelope, can sell, then advises against relying on that. His own claims are that appearance affects both price and the care of consideration, that longhand and onion-skin paper are refused or detested, that thin paper, a smeared ribbon or a toy machine's imprint count against the writer, and that showy extras should be avoided. The chapter offers no named editor or count as support; the brown-paper and envelope statements are attributed to 'some authors and Editors'.

Curator qualifications: Appearance claims verified; editor references are generalisations (6 hits, none named), as stated.

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

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
      "note": "sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.txt Ch. LXIV lines ~21360-21600"
    }
  ]
}
```

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- [sourced_fact] Sargent first concedes that a good story on brown wrapping paper, or an idea on an envelope, can sell, then advises against relying on that. His own claims are that appearance affects both price and the care of consideration, that longhand and onion-skin paper are refused or detested, that thin paper, a smeared ribbon or a toy machine's imprint count against the writer, and that showy extras should be avoided. The chapter offers no named editor or count as support; the brown-paper and envelope statements are attributed to 'some authors and Editors'. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.txt Ch. LXIV lines ~21360-21600 · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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