{"id":2177,"date":"2012-04-30T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T15:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2013-11-02T20:17:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T00:17:55","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-september-25-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-september-25-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: September 25, 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, September 25, 1982, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820925-001-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, September 25, 1982, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820925-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, September 25, 1982, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820925-002-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, September 25, 1982, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820925-002-unh.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, September 25, 1982, Page 3, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820925-003-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, September 25, 1982, Page 3, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820925-003-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;\">September 25, 1982<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks very much for your commentary<br \/>\nabout the poems. I will let the letter cool<br \/>\nfor a couple of days and then get the<br \/>\npoems out again.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here\u2019s another one.<br \/>\nIf you would respond to it sometime soon<br \/>\nI could get going on my October<br \/>\nsubmission.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure what else I can send<br \/>\nalong with it at this point, but<br \/>\nmaybe something new will develop.<\/p>\n<p>The writing grows regular now, thanks<br \/>\nto you, Jane and my afternoon teaching<br \/>\nschedule.<\/p>\n<p>More thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Knowing Joey is at work on the manuscript<br \/>\nlifts my spirits hugely&#8211;as does your full<br \/>\nletter about the poems I sent!<\/p>\n<p>THE ICE RETREATS IN SUTTON<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, the town<br \/>\nas it was before<br \/>\nthe season of ice:<\/p>\n<p>trees, deeper<br \/>\nthan anyone<br \/>\ncan remember,<\/p>\n<p>houses a century old<br \/>\nresting on stone&#8211;<br \/>\nand in the field,<\/p>\n<p>taking the first<br \/>\nsun, two<br \/>\nlost Buicks<\/p>\n<p>standing shoulder<br \/>\nto shoulder, hay<br \/>\nstill in their mouths.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2177\" data-postid=\"2177\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2177 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] September 25, 1982 Dear Don, Thanks very much for your commentary about the poems. I will let the letter cool for a couple of days and then get the poems out again. In the meantime, here\u2019s another one. If you would respond to it sometime soon I could get going on [&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\/2177"}],"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=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10137,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/10137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}