{"id":2078,"date":"2012-04-27T12:42:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T16:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2013-10-28T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T17:04:29","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-september-4-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-september-4-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: September 4, 1981"},"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 4, 1981.  Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19810904-001-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-09-04-1981\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19810904-001-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 September 1981<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks for the good long letter. We have been back<br \/>\nhere for quite a while, but of course it is a strange time.<br \/>\nWe stayed here, after coming back at the end of July, because<br \/>\nJane\u2019s father \u2013 we were told \u2013 would have to remain in the<br \/>\nhospital or a nursing home until he died. The cancer metastasized<br \/>\nto his brain. However, he has now taken a turn for the better,<br \/>\nand he may go home again. But he may be well enough so that we<br \/>\ndo not have to be out there.<\/p>\n<p>Jane just went out for another little visit, and when<br \/>\nshe came back we had timed it so that Geoffrey Hill and Aileen<br \/>\ncame into the airport at the same time, and they are up here<br \/>\nnow, staying with us for nineteen days. We all work in the mornings,<br \/>\nand then play in the late afternoons and evenings. It is a good<br \/>\nthing.<\/p>\n<p>We have had a tremendous amount of work done on the house,<br \/>\nand it is just horrible. All last summer was lost, when we tore<br \/>\noff the old bathroom and converted the old bedroom into a new<br \/>\nbathroom and hallway, and built a new bedroom on at the end.<br \/>\nEarlier, we have suffered through the replacement of two chimneys,<br \/>\nthrough lifting up the woodshed and putting new sills under it,<br \/>\nall sorts of things. Horrible. Now I don\u2019t think we will have<br \/>\nto do any more major work \u2013 just roofing and painting from time<br \/>\nto time. I hope so. And the dozers like to get here at about<br \/>\nsix a.m..<\/p>\n<p>Very good about Diane\u2019s recovery. Bad to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">have<\/span> to recover\u2026<br \/>\nbut good to recover. Not only that but worker\u2019s compensation.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the new book manuscript. By the way, the<br \/>\nsituation at Dial \u2013 Fran McCullough \u2013 is bleak, and I\u2019m in the<br \/>\nprocess of looking for another publisher myself. Not that i<br \/>\nhave anything to show right now to show. But will do. The revision<br \/>\nof the manuscript sounds good offhand. But I want to spend<br \/>\nsome time with it.<\/p>\n<p>I am writing every day, and now feel a little more encouraged<br \/>\nthan I did a year ago. I have some newish poems, revised poems,<br \/>\nwhich seem better to me. The Intersection is very different,<br \/>\nI think I am finally getting those horizontals and verticals<br \/>\nstraight.<\/p>\n<p>Love to you both.<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2078\" data-postid=\"2078\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2078 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 4 September 1981 Wes McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, Many thanks for the good long letter. We have been back here for quite a while, but of course it is a strange time. We stayed here, after coming back at the end of July, because Jane\u2019s father [&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":[35323,596,42965,35504,42976],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078"}],"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=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9777,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/9777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}