{"id":2134,"date":"2012-04-27T14:27:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2013-12-18T21:34:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:34:53","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-april-20-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-april-20-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic to Hall: April 20, 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from The Atlantic to Hall, April 20, 1982, Page 1, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19820420-001-colby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Letter from The Atlantic to Hall, Page 1, April 20, 1982\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19820420-001-colby.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from The Atlantic to Hall, April 20, 1982, Page 2, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19820420-002-colby.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Letter from The Atlantic to Hall, April 20, 1982, Page 2, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19820420-002-colby.jpg\" \/><\/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;\">April 20, 1982<\/p>\n<p>Dear Joseph Amaryllis:<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be happy to publish Wesley McNair\u2019s \u201cMina Bell\u2019s Cows.\u201d<br \/>\nThanks for sending it.<\/p>\n<p>Yours,<br \/>\nPeter Davison<br \/>\nPoetry Editor<\/p>\n<p>April 19, 1982<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Joseph Amaryllis<br \/>\nBox 71<br \/>\nPotter Place, New Hampshire 03265<\/p>\n<p>2\/<\/p>\n<p>For your contribution to the Atlantic Monthly<br \/>\nentitled \u201cMina Bell\u2019s Cows\u201d,<br \/>\nwe enclose a check for $50.00.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Atlantic is interested in first American<br \/>\nand Canadian magazine rights only, we shall be happy, on receipt<br \/>\nof your request, to assign the copyright therein to you, at any<br \/>\ntime after publication date, reserving to ourselves the right to<br \/>\nvend copies of your contribution during the term of the copyright<br \/>\nas a component part of the edition of The Atlantic Monthly in<br \/>\nwhich it is originally published and for which copyright will be<br \/>\nclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>We are advised that this formal procedure is necessary<br \/>\nto protect your rights, as well as ours, under the very complicated<br \/>\nconditions surrounding the copyright laws.<\/p>\n<p>Very truly yours,<\/p>\n<p>THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY<br \/>\nLawrence J. Murphy<br \/>\nVICE PRESIDENT FINANCE &amp; ADMINSTRATION<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mina-bells-cows\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Mina Bell&#8217;s Cows<\/span><\/a><\/strong> (published version)<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2134\" data-postid=\"2134\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2134 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] April 20, 1982 Dear Joseph Amaryllis: We\u2019ll be happy to publish Wesley McNair\u2019s \u201cMina Bell\u2019s Cows.\u201d Thanks for sending it. Yours, Peter Davison Poetry Editor April 19, 1982 Mr. Joseph Amaryllis Box 71 Potter Place, New Hampshire 03265 2\/ For your contribution to the Atlantic Monthly entitled \u201cMina Bell\u2019s Cows\u201d, we [&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":[35294,596,42965,35504,42979],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134"}],"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=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11361,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions\/11361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}