{"id":2191,"date":"2012-04-30T11:52:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T15:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2013-11-02T19:56:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T23:56:41","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-october-11-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-october-11-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: October 11, 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, October 11, 1982, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19821011-001-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, October 11, 1982, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19821011-001-colby.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;\">11 October 1982<\/p>\n<p>Wesley McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t have a current price list for the American<br \/>\nStationery Co., because I just [ordered] a whole bunch of<br \/>\nthings. If you write a postcard to them at Peru, Indiana,<br \/>\nthey will send you a catalogue. I have no doubt! Their<br \/>\nprice has gone up enormously fantastically \u2013 and I suppose<br \/>\nit is still the cheapest thing anywhere around. I find the<br \/>\npostcards wonderfully cheap. But the price you pay, as it<br \/>\nwere, is that you have no variety. The minute you start<br \/>\npaying for variety, you pay them more\u2026 The stuff that I<br \/>\nuse comes in blue, for the small stationery\u2026blue ink that<br \/>\nis\u2026and black for the typewriter size\u2026 Blue for the postcards.<br \/>\nAnd exactly the same typeface\u2026 That is why it\u2019s cheap.<\/p>\n<p>I love the poems, and am starting to send them out.<\/p>\n<p>I have one suggestion \u2013 the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">title<\/span> of \u201cThe Ice Retreats<br \/>\nIn Sutton\u201d is clich\u00e9 and dead metaphor. Military metaphor of<br \/>\nretreating. The poem is so much better than that! Why not<br \/>\njust say something like \u201cAfter the Ice\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Refresh my memory \u2013 so I can pass it on down street to<br \/>\nJoey\u2026 Do you have poems still coming out in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Poetry<\/span>? Do<br \/>\nyou have a poem still coming out in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Atlantic<\/span>?<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the latest bulletins. But don\u2019t stay <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">up<\/span>.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen Paul Flew Away\u201d so beautiful\u2026 The grammar made me nervous<br \/>\nuntil I saw that it was consistent, and a form of speech\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Best as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/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-2191\" data-postid=\"2191\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2191 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 11 October 1982 Wesley McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, I don\u2019t have a current price list for the American Stationery Co., because I just [ordered] a whole bunch of things. If you write a postcard to them at Peru, Indiana, they will send you a catalogue. 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