{"id":1259,"date":"2012-02-02T13:54:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T17:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2013-12-11T12:22:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:22:13","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-june-15-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-june-15-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: June 15, 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, June 15, 1979, Page 1. Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19790615-001-unh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"McNair-to-Hall-06-15-1979-Page-1\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19790615-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, June 15, 1979, Page 2. Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19790615-002-unh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"McNair-to-Hall-06-15-1979-Page-2\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19790615-002-unh.jpg\" \/><\/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;\">June 15, 1979<br \/>\nDear Don \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Just got a rejection from U\/Pittsburg Press.<br \/>\nMy note (handwritten by Ed Ochester!) speaks<br \/>\nof \u201cfine work here\u201d and goes on to say that<br \/>\n\u201cwe have decided to go with other manuscripts,\u201d<br \/>\nand that I should try the Press \u201cagain next<br \/>\nyear if [my] book hasn\u2019t been placed by then.\u201d<br \/>\nThe note brings back memories of another,<br \/>\nsimilar, rejection, sent me some months ago<br \/>\nby New Rivers Press, to whom I had mailed my<br \/>\nchapbook.<\/p>\n<p>Since I figure I\u2019m due soon for a<br \/>\nrejection from Yale, I\u2019m writing to ask you<br \/>\nif you can think of any other publisher to whom<br \/>\nI might send the book. Do publishers generally<br \/>\naccept unsolicited manuscripts from poets?<br \/>\nI\u2019m told there\u2019s a NY agent named<br \/>\nScott Meredith who is fairly reputable and<br \/>\nhandles the work of many poets as well as<br \/>\nfiction writers. Do you know about this guy?<\/p>\n<p>In my desperation, I\u2019m up for any<br \/>\nsuggestions \u2013 am beginning to fear that my<\/p>\n<p>2\/<\/p>\n<p>\u201cgratification\u201d may be \u201cdelayed\u201d forever.<\/p>\n<p>Writing has been going well (up to today,<br \/>\nat least) and has been going steady and strong<br \/>\nfor some time, thanks to your good influence.<br \/>\nI hope all is well with your writing \u2013 and with<br \/>\nJane\u2019s, in spite of her dismay on the night<br \/>\nwe were at your house.<\/p>\n<p>Down<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>A note from McNair about this letter:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Jane&#8217;s \u201cdismay\u201d refers to the episode of depression that afflicted her during our visit.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1259\" data-postid=\"1259\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1259 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] June 15, 1979 Dear Don \u2013 Just got a rejection from U\/Pittsburg Press. My note (handwritten by Ed Ochester!) speaks of \u201cfine work here\u201d and goes on to say that \u201cwe have decided to go with other manuscripts,\u201d and that I should try the Press \u201cagain next year if [my] book [&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":[803,35504,42971,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259"}],"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=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10908,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/10908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}