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TOOLS OF THE TRADE 29 We are rather anticipating the writing of the script, but mail- ing the script may as well be described here. Back your manuscript in one of the ways described and clip all together with a single Niagara clip. Use only one. Any other form of clip may be used that does not perforate the paper as does the OK and similar clips. Do not use a staple, McGill or similar fastener or bind the paper permanently in any form. Put the clip at the top of the sheets and not at the side. Above all, do not sew or glue the sheets together into book form. The Editor can read the story best by slipping off the clip and handling the loose sheets. It will also avoid the crumpling of your script and ensure its return in the best possible shape. The last thing before your clip is put on assure yourself that the sheets are in their proper order. Do not mix them up to see if they have been read. The editor has to read only the synopsis to tell if he does not want the script. Fold the script twice, into thirds, making a package 8^ by 3^ inches and slip this into a number ten envelope addressed to yourself and carrying a two cent stamp. Do not seal this en- velope and do not tuck the flap in. Place this envelope, Hap down, into a larger envelope; the num- ber eleven. By placing the flap down there is less danger of the sharp letter opener mutilating the return envelope. Seal the number eleven and address it to the manuscript department of the firm to which you wish to send it. Do not address this en- velope to the Editor personally, to the director or to any member of the firm. It will not help any and may delay the reading. Make absolutely certain, by weighing, and by no other way, that the envelope is sufficiently well provided with stamps. Some companies will not accept underpaid matter from the post office. Manuscript classes as first class or letter mail, the postage on which is two cents for each ounce or fraction of an ounce. If your script does not weigh an ounce and a half, but is over one ounce, put on four cents, do not put on three cents. The post- age is either two, or four or six cents, etc. Do not under any circumstances nor at any time, ever, for any possible or conceivable reason, roll your manuscript, and do not write on both sides of a sheet of paper. If you must add even one line, do not turn the sheet over, take a fresh sheet. You may send two or more scripts in the same envelope, but provide a return cover for each script. They may desire to retain one script and return the other. It is not necessary to send a letter with your script. The editor knows that you are sending him the script in the hope that he will buy it. He knows that without being told. You have nothing