{"id":1240,"date":"2012-01-27T17:27:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T21:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2021-11-11T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:14:00","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-january-20-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-january-20-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: January 20, 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, January 20, 1979. Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19790120-001-colby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19790120-001-colby.jpg\" alt=\"Hall-to-McNair-1-20-1979\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">[Click image to view]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: white; padding-left: 30px;\">20 January 1979<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nNorth Sutton<br \/>\nNew Hampshire<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr. McNair,<\/p>\n<p>We understand that you have available for publication<br \/>\na manuscript of poems, of which some have not yet<br \/>\nappeared in periodicals. Would you be willing to allow<br \/>\nus to represent you, as your literary agents, in placing<br \/>\nyour poems in periodicals? We have had some success<br \/>\nrecently with Mr. Gregory Orr of Earlysville, Virginia,<br \/>\nplacing seven of his poems on our first attempts to be<br \/>\nliterary agents. We feel that diversification will<br \/>\nincrease our credibility. We also like your poems. We<br \/>\nalso like sending out mail. We also imagine that by<br \/>\nretaining ten per cent of your earnings, we will be able<br \/>\nto pay our postage, take trips to Miami, etc\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like us to proceed, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we believe<\/span> that we<br \/>\ncan secure a copy of your manuscript from Mr. Donald Hall,<br \/>\npry the staples from it, and use it for distribution.<br \/>\nWould you please tell us not only which of the poems<br \/>\nhave been printed*, but which of the other poems have been<br \/>\nseen by which magazines. Thorough, complete, and<br \/>\naccurate records are essential, as we all know, in this<br \/>\ndifficult world\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Yours truly,<\/p>\n<p>J.A.<br \/>\nFor Amaryllis Incorporated<\/p>\n<p>*&amp; where<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1240\" data-postid=\"1240\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1240 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 20 January 1979 Wes McNair North Sutton New Hampshire Dear Mr. McNair, We understand that you have available for publication a manuscript of poems, of which some have not yet appeared in periodicals. Would you be willing to allow us to represent you, as your literary agents, in placing your poems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[803,596,42965,35504,42971],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14133,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/14133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}