{"id":2157,"date":"2012-04-27T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2013-11-02T18:25:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T22:25:55","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-july-26-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-july-26-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: July 26, 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, July 26, 1982, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820726-001-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, July 26, 1982, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820726-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, July 26, 1982, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820726-002-unh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, July 26, 1982, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820726-002-unh.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;\">July 26, 1982<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>Heard you tonight at Colby and wanted to tell you<br \/>\nI enjoyed your anecdotes, but you were surrounded<br \/>\nand busy autographing, so I tell you this way.<\/p>\n<p>I also enjoyed the nice little volume of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ploughshares<\/span><br \/>\nyou edited and am glad Joey was willing to give you<br \/>\npoems for it. The cover is great, and I liked<br \/>\nseveral of your choices.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet from Pittsburgh, though word<br \/>\nis overdue. While I can\u2019t help expecting the<br \/>\nworst, though I admit to peeking through<br \/>\nhands as I hold them over my eyes<br \/>\nin case something wonderful happens. Incidentally,<br \/>\nI\u2019m working now on several things, but completion<br \/>\nof each still eludes me. I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will<\/span> try to send<br \/>\nmore poems for \u201cthe fall campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now I have an anecdote for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you<\/span>. A<br \/>\nstudent from UNH who is taking a summer<br \/>\ncourse on critical analysis from me at<\/p>\n<p>2\/<\/p>\n<p>Merrimack Valley College told me the other night<br \/>\nthat he is trying to get an English minor&#8211;may<br \/>\neven get a major in English&#8211;mainly because<br \/>\nof a book that got him interested in poetry,<br \/>\nwhich he had never considered seriously before.<br \/>\nThe title of the book is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kicking the Leaves<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Take this letter out the next time you have<br \/>\nany doubts about your work!<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2157\" data-postid=\"2157\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2157 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] July 26, 1982 Dear Don, Heard you tonight at Colby and wanted to tell you I enjoyed your anecdotes, but you were surrounded and busy autographing, so I tell you this way. I also enjoyed the nice little volume of Ploughshares you edited and am glad Joey was willing to give [&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\/2157"}],"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=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10078,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/10078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}