{"id":2209,"date":"2012-05-10T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T19:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2013-12-18T13:28:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:28:26","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-january-2-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-january-2-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: January 2, 1984"},"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, January 2, 1983, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19830102-001-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, January 2, 1983, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19830102-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, January 2, 1983, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19830102-002-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, January 2, 1983, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19830102-002-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;\">January 2, 1983 (<em>misdated: should be 1984<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>The letter to Robert Richman (such trouble he must<br \/>\nhave with that name!) is off, promising work<br \/>\nsoon from the redoubtable Mr. Amaryllis.<\/p>\n<p>How wonderful about Jane\u2019s success with<br \/>\npublication\u2014and your own. What <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">neighbors<\/span><br \/>\nto live with! I am about to start my January<br \/>\nwriting\u2014now with renewed vigor.<\/p>\n<p>I have gotten rid of 160 books\u2014<br \/>\nmost of them sold. Am about to order more.<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t expect to have such luck. I should<br \/>\nintroduce a line of tomato relish.<\/p>\n<p>Have written all follow-up notes and letters<br \/>\nto the U\/Missouri Press for the wonderful trip<br \/>\nDiane and I had\u2014and of course I mentioned<br \/>\nyou as judge\u2014this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">after<\/span> your OK of the<br \/>\nlast letter. I do hope to be able to light<br \/>\njust one firecracker for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you<\/span>\u2014because of all<br \/>\nyours for me, and because they would not do<br \/>\nbetter in their search for a judge!<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/p>\n<p>PS. Forgot to mention: I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">did<\/span> have a complimentary<br \/>\ncopy of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Faces<\/span> sent to Robert Richman.<br \/>\nFor you and Joey to know.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b><i>A note from McNair about this letter:\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span>Robert Richman is the editor of <em>The New Criterion<\/em>, who asked to see poems of mine at Don&#8217;s suggestion&#8230;.In remarking about Jane&#8217;s and Don&#8217;s success with publication, I refer to their acceptances by magazine editors, mentioned in previous letters.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2209\" data-postid=\"2209\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2209 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] January 2, 1983 (misdated: should be 1984) Dear Don, The letter to Robert Richman (such trouble he must have with that name!) is off, promising work soon from the redoubtable Mr. Amaryllis. How wonderful about Jane\u2019s success with publication\u2014and your own. What neighbors to live with! I am about to start [&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":[35322,35504,77589,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209"}],"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=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11169,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions\/11169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}