McNair to Hall, May 28, 1984
A note from McNair about this letter: I refer in my first paragraph to Don’s receiving an honorary degree at the May Colby-Sawyer Commencement…. The definitive version of “Sister by the Pond” is somewhat different from the one I read in The Iowa Review. Don has already revised the poem when he receives this note. Nonetheless, the final published version, below, is close to the one I saw.
Read A Sister by the Pond (published version)