McNair to Hall: December 23, 1976

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Postmarked Dec 23, 1976 Don- Sorry to have fouled up the spelling of the Peterborough publisher. The name, legibly this time (I hope) is WILLIAM L. BAUHAN I have just received the illustrations done for The Faces of Americans in 1853 & would like very much to discuss them with you. I’m not at all sure they’re right. Will you be around during the holidays? Wes

A note from McNair about this letter: The second paragraph refers to the chapbook manuscript I showed to Don and Jane with illustrations done by an artist friend (Don did not find them suitable in the end, and neither did I). I chose the painting on my card, “The Peaceable Kingdom,” because Don and Jane especially liked my poem “The Last Peaceable Kingdom” in the manuscript I left with Don. In fact, after Jane read the manuscript and discovered this poem had not yet been published, she chose it for her new poetry journal Green House, together with “Rufus Porter, Itinerant Muralist and Inventor, Undertakes a Commission in Bradford Center, N.H.”

Read The Last Peaceable Kingdom (published version)

Read Rufus Porter, Itinerant Muralist and Inventor, Undertakes a Commission in Bradford Center, N.H. (published version)