{"id":1702,"date":"2012-03-30T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T18:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2013-12-13T14:41:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T18:41:42","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-september-9-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-september-9-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: September 9, 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, September 9, 1980.  Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19800909-001-2-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-09-09-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19800909-001-2-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;\">September 9, 1980<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>Your recent letter about submissions of my poems reminds me<br \/>\nthat the cycle of submission starts in the fall \u2013 and that Joey<br \/>\nhas only a few things of mine to send. Therefore, in spite<br \/>\nof my earlier thought about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">holding onto<\/span> poems, I have decided<br \/>\nto send you the enclosed. If you think it is ready, please<br \/>\ngive it to Joey. It is not a \u201cbiggie,\u201d but it may be<br \/>\nworth <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">something<\/span> to him.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I just saw an ad for the Dorrance<br \/>\npublishing company. Is this a legitimate house, or<br \/>\nis it, as I suspect, a vanity press?<\/p>\n<p>Found the \u201cone question\u201d you got from Cowley\u2019s book<br \/>\nmost instructive \u2013 and enjoyed the rest of your review<br \/>\nin the Times.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>Editorial note about this letter:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> The poem enclosed is \u201cThe People Upstairs,\u201d the text of which appears in the next letter.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1702\" data-postid=\"1702\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1702 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] September 9, 1980 Dear Don, Your recent letter about submissions of my poems reminds me that the cycle of submission starts in the fall \u2013 and that Joey has only a few things of mine to send. Therefore, in spite of my earlier thought about holding onto poems, I have decided [&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\/1702"}],"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=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10969,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/10969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}