{"id":2163,"date":"2012-04-30T11:36:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T15:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2013-11-02T19:31:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T23:31:09","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-august-18-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-august-18-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: August 18, 1982"},"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, August 18, 1982, Page 1, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19820818-001-colby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, August 18, 1982, Page 1, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19820818-001-colby.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, August 18, 1982, Page 2, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19820818-002-colby.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, August 18, 1982, Page 2, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19820818-002-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;\">18 August 1982<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>Too bad about Pittsburgh. I think I wrote<br \/>\nyou about Carnegie-Mellon, that Costanzo sincerely<br \/>\nlikes the book very much; that his funding is temp-<br \/>\norarily down, and he may do no more books for twelve<br \/>\nmonths\u2026 Don\u2019t expect anything from there. We go<br \/>\nto the opening of my play tonight in Peterborough,<br \/>\non Friday we fly to England, back on September 4th\u2026<br \/>\nMaybe Joey should take over? Let us talk in Sept-<br \/>\nember.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>Editorial note about this<\/strong> letter:<\/em>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Don&#8217;s play opening that night was\u00a0<em>Ragged Mountain Elegies<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2163\" data-postid=\"2163\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2163 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 18 August 1982 Wes McNair Dear Wes, Too bad about Pittsburgh. I think I wrote you about Carnegie-Mellon, that Costanzo sincerely likes the book very much; that his funding is temp- orarily down, and he may do no more books for twelve months\u2026 Don\u2019t expect anything from there. We go to [&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\/2163"}],"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=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10092,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/10092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}