{"id":2128,"date":"2012-04-27T14:23:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2013-12-17T14:33:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T18:33:30","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-march-31-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-march-31-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: March 31, 1982"},"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, March 31, 1982, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820331-001-unh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, March 31, 1982\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820331-001-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;\">March 31, 1982<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry you do not care for the father poem<br \/>\nin its present state, but I remain grateful for<br \/>\nyour honest review of my poems. I will put it away<br \/>\nfor a while. It\u2019s much too close for me to come<br \/>\nto terms with any of your comments at this point.<\/p>\n<p>I enclose $3.50 for the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">HM<\/span> publication (payment<br \/>\nwas $35), and I thank you not only for seeing<br \/>\nthat one through but for passing the \u201cSmall Towns\u201d<br \/>\npoem on to Joey for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Poetry<\/span>. The hit there lifts<br \/>\nmy spirits considerably!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also sending you, as you see, two new<br \/>\npoems, which I hope you like. Please let me know<br \/>\nwhen you can what you think.<\/p>\n<p>Best to you and Jane, and love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/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 two unnamed poems sent with this letter for Don\u2019s appraisal are \u201cThe Longing of the Feet\u201d and \u201cMy Brother Inside the Revolving Doors.\u201d The &#8220;HM publication&#8221; refers to <em>Harvard Magazine<\/em>, in which McNair&#8217;s poem &#8220;The Thin Man&#8221; was published (March-April 1982 issue).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2128\" data-postid=\"2128\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2128 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] March 31, 1982 Dear Don, I am sorry you do not care for the father poem in its present state, but I remain grateful for your honest review of my poems. I will put it away for a while. It\u2019s much too close for me to come to terms with any [&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":[35294,35504,42979,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128"}],"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=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11097,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/11097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}