{"id":1727,"date":"2012-04-13T13:11:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T17:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2013-12-18T20:55:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T00:55:58","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-september-17-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-september-17-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: September 17, 1980"},"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, September 17, 1980.  Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19800917-001-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-09-17-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19800917-001-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;\">17 September 1980<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>Joey will be sending it out, and asked me to remind you<br \/>\nto put your name on the poems, upper righthand corner, or<br \/>\na few spaces after the end of them \u2013 in typing, when you<br \/>\ntype them up in the future.<\/p>\n<p>I do think that \u201cthin\u201d is better than \u201cfaint,\u201d though<br \/>\nalso rather familiar, in the context.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure which five poems! I do like a great great<br \/>\nmany of them, and I like a great great many of them a great<br \/>\ngreat deal! Why don\u2019t you see if you have a sense which five<br \/>\nare the most popular with most of the people whom you know\u2026<br \/>\nwhich would be more reliable than just one person\u2019s opinion.<br \/>\nI would surely include the Peaceable Kingdom, always, in<br \/>\neverything\u2026 The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Poetry<\/span> two are wonderful\u2026 And I think<br \/>\nthat\u2026 well, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">don\u2019t<\/span> include Elinor, simply because too many<br \/>\npeople do not seem to respond to it. (It spends its life<br \/>\nin the U.S. mails, still.)<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, I think you are quite consistent.<br \/>\nThat is, I don\u2019t think five stick out. I guess it would be<br \/>\nobvious that the adolescent dream poems would not be among<br \/>\nthe five. Maybe I would take negative votes \u2013 your own,<br \/>\nbased upon what you have heard from others \u2013 more seriously<br \/>\neven than the positive ones.<\/p>\n<p>Best as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/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>:\u00a0\u00a0To view the ill-fated Elinore Quelch poem in manuscript, which I agreed was not up to grade, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/going-back-to-elinore-quelch\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">click here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-last-peaceable-kingdom\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Last Peaceable Kingdom<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> (published version)<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1727\" data-postid=\"1727\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1727 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 17 September 1980 Wes McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, Joey will be sending it out, and asked me to remind you to put your name on the poems, upper righthand corner, or a few spaces after the end of them \u2013 in typing, when you type them [&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":[35324,596,42965,35504,42973],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727"}],"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=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11314,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/11314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}