{"id":2392,"date":"2012-05-10T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2013-11-03T21:13:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:13:27","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-april-25-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-april-25-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: April 25, 1983"},"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, April 25, 1983, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19830425-001-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, April 25, 1983, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19830425-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, April 25, 1983, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19830425-002-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, April 25, 1983, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19830425-002-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;\">April 25, 1983<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>What good news about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Iowa Review<\/span>! Thanks.<br \/>\nI have sent the bio notes in, as you requested.<\/p>\n<p>I enclose a copy of \u201cThe Portuguese Dictionary\u201d,<br \/>\nas I believe your copy has a cross-out<br \/>\non it. Please use the enclosed as the<br \/>\n\u201cofficial\u201d version.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine, somehow, that Peter Davison<br \/>\nmight like \u201cWhen Paul Flew Away\u201d and \u201cMute\u201d.<br \/>\nDid Joey imagine the same thing, by any<br \/>\nchance?<\/p>\n<p>I have gotten a new letter from Jerry<br \/>\n(we are now \u201cJerry\u201d and \u201cWes\u201d) Costanzo,<br \/>\nwho for some reason speaks no \u201cif\u2019s\u201d now<br \/>\nin discussing publication of my book.<\/p>\n<p>Printing it through Carnegie-Mellon seems even<br \/>\nmore likely.<\/p>\n<p>Which is OK with me&#8211;for more reasons<br \/>\nthan the obvious one. I do not wish to be at<br \/>\nColby more than two years longer. The old<br \/>\ngirl now seems certain to founder. If she<br \/>\ndoesn\u2019t, there will be no fun on deck.<br \/>\nDiane and I are already preparing ourselves&#8211;<br \/>\npsychologically, right now&#8211;to push off.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again for the invitation&#8211;I do<br \/>\nhope we can work something out (pen died.)<br \/>\nfor that Saturday, or maybe for a<br \/>\nFriday sometime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2392\" data-postid=\"2392\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2392 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] April 25, 1983 Dear Don, What good news about Iowa Review! Thanks. I have sent the bio notes in, as you requested. I enclose a copy of \u201cThe Portuguese Dictionary\u201d, as I believe your copy has a cross-out on it. Please use the enclosed as the \u201cofficial\u201d version. I imagine, somehow, [&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":[35322,35504,42982,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392"}],"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=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10265,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/10265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}