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330 SELLING THE SCRIPT tance to register it. It may strike you that it will impress the Editor, but if he knows about it at all he will know you are a new writer. 21. \ou can obtain no form of receipt tliat will be .binding upon a company in the eyes of the law. No company is supposed to be responsible for any manuscript placed in its keeping. If it does not advertise for scripts or has given notice through the usual channels that it does not want any, it is perfectly justified in tlirowing your manuscript into the waste basket, no matter whether or not you inclosed stamps for its return. If they have intimated that they are in the market for scripts, then they are supposed to use reasonable caution to insure the script against willful injury, but if it says it does not want scripts or has not said that it does, your action in thrusting your property into its keeping is unwarranted and un- reasonable and you do so at your own risk. 22. Most companies are courteous in tlieir treatment of scripts and some will pay the cost of recopying if the damage to the manu- script is the evident result of carelessness on the part of its em- ployees, but this is a courtesy and not a right. You have something you wish to sell. If you wish to leave it with a prospective pur- chaser for examination and approval you cannot exact the same responsibility that you can from a warehouse company which you pay to care for your goods. When a company announces that it is in the market for scripts, it does not, in this, statement, imply any insurance. It announces a willingness to examine the wares you have to offer and which you leave with them. 23. If you wish to know that a script is in the hands of a com- pany, inclose a postcard, written or in part printed, that carries some such form as this. Please post on receipt of inanuscript. Your story, "Led by Fate," has been received and will be passed upon in due course. It is understood that this constitutes no claim against the company. If you place your address on the face of the card the script clerk has only to drop the postal in the box and very probably will do so. 24. Many companies, but not all, have a custom of sending out postcards if a script is retained for further consideration. This is no more of a receipt than the other. If you should take the matter into court you might be able to collect the cost of copying the carbon, which might take a dollar or so off the court costs you would be compelled to pay. You cannot collect for the script because the company has not used the script. They have merely lost a copy of the script. If you have no other copy it is your misfortune, but no concern of theirs. 25. Do not write letters to the Editor. He knows you are sending him your story and that you hope that it will meet with his approval and that you have inclosed a return envelope in ca.se he does not like it. He knows that and this is all he does want to know. It will not interest him that this is the first story you ever wrote and that