{"id":2207,"date":"2012-04-30T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2013-12-18T21:46:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:46:29","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-december-6-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-december-6-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: December 6, 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, December 6, 1982, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19821206-001-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, December 6, 1982, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19821206-001-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;\">6 December 1982<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>I like this one, and I will never like quite so much as<br \/>\nthe other recent ones, as your best work \u2013 because it is an<br \/>\nanecdote only, because it depends upon a \u201ctrick ending,\u201d and<br \/>\nit does not quite survive that\u2026 But it is good anyway. It<br \/>\nis just smaller.<\/p>\n<p>And there is one problem with it, as I see it. That is<br \/>\nthe meaning of the word \u201cit\u201d at the beginning. It could mean<br \/>\n\u201cveil,\u201d or \u201capron,\u201d but as it used at the end of the third line,<br \/>\nby the sense of things, it must mean \u201capron\u201d. But how do you<br \/>\nclose an apron around a canning rack? Or close it in the winter<br \/>\naround reluctant lids of jam? In the latter case, maybe you<br \/>\nuse it for friction to open the canning lids.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously I am not getting something that you intend.<br \/>\nObviously I think it is your fault\u2026 Maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>The only other thing\u2026 I think that \u201ca far-off look\u201d is<br \/>\npretty trite. Otherwise I like it a lot, and I certainly intend<br \/>\nto pass it onto Joey\u2026but I think maybe you can touch it up a<br \/>\ntiny bit.<\/p>\n<p>Joey is out digging up the sassafras root, so he can\u2019t<br \/>\nspeak.<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>A note from McNair about this letter:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> I eventually abandoned \u201cThe Wish,\u201d (Don\u2019s sense of a trick ending killed it), but bits of the poem&#8217;s imagery and narrative have reappeared over the years in three poems \u2013 &#8216;The Name,&#8221; \u201cRemembering Aprons,\u201d and part 5 of \u201cTown Limits\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-name\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Name<\/span><\/a><\/strong> (published version)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/remembering-aprons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Remembering Aprons<\/span><\/a><\/strong> (published version)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/town-limits\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Town Limits<\/span><\/a><\/strong> (published version)<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2207\" data-postid=\"2207\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2207 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 6 December 1982 Wes McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, I like this one, and I will never like quite so much as the other recent ones, as your best work \u2013 because it is an anecdote only, because it depends upon a \u201ctrick ending,\u201d and it does [&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":[35294,596,42965,35504,42982],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207"}],"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=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11381,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions\/11381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}