{"id":1447,"date":"2012-02-22T18:32:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T22:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2013-12-11T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:59:06","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-november-16-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-november-16-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: November 16, 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, November 16, 1979. Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19791116-001-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-11-16-1979\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19791116-001-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;\">16 November 1979<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>Lovely to read all about you, in the Argus. In the<br \/>\nsame issue, it said that Denise was reading her poems tomorrow<br \/>\nnight, the 17th.* I cannot believe that she is reading Saturday<br \/>\nnight \u2013 especially since the Cochrans have invited us for supper<br \/>\nthat night. If you ever know of such things happening in the<br \/>\nfuture, please do let us know. I think that maybe in our absence<br \/>\na bulletin has arrived and been overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>We just took a ten-day cruise. Did I tell you that?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I am delighted. Which term are you going to<br \/>\ntake off next year?<\/p>\n<p>I talked to Fran yesterday. She is not hopeful about<br \/>\nany <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">early<\/span> moves \u2013 so I am really glad that you are sending out<br \/>\nelsewhere. Nothing sinister in this. It is just that another<br \/>\neditor (Ted Solataroff) has gotten away with signing up a good<br \/>\nnumber of non-money-making books, which tends to mean that the<br \/>\npowers that be will be sour on taking on more, just yet.<\/p>\n<p>The readings are going well. I am having tons and tons<br \/>\nof them. I think it is a combination of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Remembering Poets<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kicking<br \/>\nthe Leaves<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Writing Well<\/span> \u2013 since a lot of places where I go<br \/>\nseem to be using <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Writing Well<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Love as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/p>\n<p>*[<em>Written note on bottom<\/em>: I telephoned. The 27th &#8212; &amp; I will<br \/>\nbe in Arizona, damn.<br \/>\nBut Jane will come to the reading!]<\/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> The Argus is the <em>Argus Champion<\/em>, Newport, New Hampshire\u2019s weekly newspaper, which ran a front-page story about my NEA fellowship. Denise is the poet Denise Levertov, who was to appear at Colby-Sawyer College&#8230; Fran is Fran McCullough, of Harper &amp; Row, to whom Don sent my manuscript of poems in progress&#8230; Don&#8217;s footnote refers to the poetry reading I am scheduled to give on November 27 at Colby-Sawyer. As this section of the letters ends, we are both in high spirits, buoyed by the prospects our writing has provided us.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1447\" data-postid=\"1447\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1447 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 16 November 1979 Wes McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, Lovely to read all about you, in the Argus. In the same issue, it said that Denise was reading her poems tomorrow night, the 17th.* I cannot believe that she is reading Saturday night \u2013 especially since the [&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\/1447"}],"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=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10924,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/10924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}