{"id":1673,"date":"2012-03-26T11:44:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T15:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2013-10-19T11:59:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T15:59:49","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-august-8-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-august-8-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: August 8, 1980"},"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, August 8, 1879.  Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19800808-001-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-08-08-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19800808-001-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;\">August 8, 1980<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>My response to your recent letter has been delayed because I\u2019ve<br \/>\nbeen away for a couple of days. But it is good to have your advice<br \/>\nabout E.V. Griffith and your comments about the fat poem.<\/p>\n<p>I will be careful not to send Griffith anything unpublished,<br \/>\nand I will certainly revise the fat poem, keeping your suggestions<br \/>\nin mind as I do so. I\u2019m still not sure what I will do about the<br \/>\npoem\u2019s epigraph. You are certainly right about the ascription,<br \/>\nI\u2019ve come to feel, and you may well be right about leaving the<br \/>\nwhole business out. Later on, I will perhaps be able to see more<br \/>\nclearly what is needed.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the sending-out of the manuscript continues.<br \/>\nViking and Random House responded positively to my preliminary letter,<br \/>\nthe same one I sent Atlantic Monthly Press and others, and so I\u2019ve<br \/>\njust sent copies of the book to them.<\/p>\n<p>As always, I shall keep you informed about whatever may develop.<br \/>\nI hope your writing goes well, and that you are keeping cool in<br \/>\nspite of our heavy humidity which no rain seems to lighten.<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/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-1673\" data-postid=\"1673\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1673 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] August 8, 1980 Dear Don, My response to your recent letter has been delayed because I\u2019ve been away for a couple of days. But it is good to have your advice about E.V. Griffith and your comments about the fat poem. I will be careful not to send Griffith anything unpublished, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35324,35504,42973,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673"}],"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\/2206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9261,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/9261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}