{"id":1371,"date":"2012-02-17T16:02:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T20:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2013-10-23T19:59:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T23:59:50","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-september-8-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-september-8-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: September 8, 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, September 8, 1979. Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19790908-001-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-09-08-1979\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19790908-001-unh.jpg\" 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;\">9\/8\/79<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don \u2013<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thanks<\/span> for your encouraging comments about<br \/>\nmy poems.<\/p>\n<p>You asked for fair copies of \u201cThe Thin Man\u201d<br \/>\nand \u201cHair on Television.\u201d I did send you copies \u2013<br \/>\nat least I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thought<\/span> I did \u2013 of those two poems<br \/>\nin their revised form. In the event you did not<br \/>\nreceive the copies of my later note expressing<br \/>\nthe wish that they be sent on to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The New Yorker<\/span>,<br \/>\nhere are two new copies and a new request \u2013<br \/>\nto be relayed to Joey \u2013 that they be mailed<br \/>\nto the above magazine. Please tell Joey that in<br \/>\nexchange for his services (and his unshakeable<br \/>\nfaith in my poems) I will gladly send postage and<br \/>\nenvelopes at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">any<\/span> time.<\/p>\n<p>You will notice that the revision of my book,<br \/>\na copy of which you have no doubt received by now,<br \/>\nis somewhat different from the revision I described<br \/>\na couple of letters back. Again, I do hope you like<br \/>\nthe new version.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I\u2019ve never seen that Bly poem on hair.<br \/>\nDo you have a copy of it? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Or<\/span> where can I find it.<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1371\" data-postid=\"1371\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1371 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 9\/8\/79 Dear Don \u2013 Thanks for your encouraging comments about my poems. You asked for fair copies of \u201cThe Thin Man\u201d and \u201cHair on Television.\u201d I did send you copies \u2013 at least I thought I did \u2013 of those two poems in their revised form. In the event you did [&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\/1371"}],"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=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9409,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/9409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}