{"id":1428,"date":"2012-02-22T17:44:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T21:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2013-10-16T21:18:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:18:29","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-october-4-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-october-4-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: October 4, 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, October 4, 1979. Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19791004-001-colby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Hall-to-McNair-10-04-1979\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19791004-001-colby.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;\">4 October 1979<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNo. Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>I really love the new poems \u2013 as I tend to love everything that<br \/>\nyou do, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">occasionally<\/span> with one or two words to disagree about. I think<br \/>\nthat \u201cThe Thin Man\u201d and \u201cHair on Television\u201d are wonderful. \u201cHair on<br \/>\nTelevision\u201d will always be visually ugly, to me, and probably to some<br \/>\nfew other finicky people \u2013 but not to many. And for me, of course, the<br \/>\nwonderfulness of it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">otherwise<\/span> is compensatory. I mentioned before that<br \/>\nBly\u2019s disquisitions on hair are obviously going to occur to anybody<br \/>\nwho reads the poem, who is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">au courant<\/span>. I say this because I suspect that it will<br \/>\nbe irritatingly true that magazine editors will object to that. But I<br \/>\ncould be wrong about that too.<\/p>\n<p>How about sending over some Fair Copies for Joey to send out?<br \/>\nYou can send them to me, because I see him practically every day. He<br \/>\nis back from the VA hospital now, and I cannot see that the operation made<br \/>\nmuch difference\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But I mentioned this before, and it is probably wise to wait until<br \/>\nyou are satisfied with the other two, in order to have a bunch of four to<br \/>\nsend out.<\/p>\n<p>Your remarks about the revised manuscripts, and where you are sending<br \/>\nit, sound just fine. I hope that there will be reason to withdraw your<br \/>\nmanuscript from various Wesleyans and Award contests\u2026 But there is not<br \/>\nyet, and there may \u2013 we have to say this, of course \u2013 never be.<\/p>\n<p>Best as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1428\" data-postid=\"1428\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1428 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 4 October 1979 Wes McNair Box 43 No. Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, I really love the new poems \u2013 as I tend to love everything that you do, occasionally with one or two words to disagree about. I think that \u201cThe Thin Man\u201d and \u201cHair on Television\u201d are wonderful. \u201cHair [&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":[803,596,42965,35504,42971,1],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"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=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9026,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/9026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}