{"id":2425,"date":"2012-05-10T14:34:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2013-11-03T21:46:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:46:17","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-august-24-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-august-24-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: August 24, 1983"},"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, August 24, 1983, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19830824-001-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, August 24, 1983, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19830824-001-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;\">24 August 1983<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>As you suspected, I cannot read the poem<br \/>\nnow.<\/p>\n<p>Very nice letter from Costanzo. I come<br \/>\nto trust him more and more. I was a little<br \/>\nleery of him, when I first met him.<\/p>\n<p>It is very good about the second book<br \/>\nbusiness. I should say that David Godine has<br \/>\nexpressed some guarded interest also.<\/p>\n<p>I wired him not to come that weekend,<br \/>\nchiefly because we were semi-hysterical with<br \/>\nvisitors and work and the play\u2026 Then in<br \/>\nfact Jane went into the hospital, by ambulance!<br \/>\nShe will be all right. It looked as if it could<br \/>\nbe something awful, but it isn\u2019t. It is a severe<br \/>\ninfection of the inner ear causing total<br \/>\nvertigo etc. She still cannot read \u2013 but she<br \/>\nis perceptively better.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote me as he wrote you, and over the<br \/>\ntelephone spoke of his hope he could do a book<br \/>\nby you in the future\u2026 Money in the bank!<\/p>\n<p>Love as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2425\" data-postid=\"2425\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2425 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 24 August 1983 Wes McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, As you suspected, I cannot read the poem now. Very nice letter from Costanzo. I come to trust him more and more. I was a little leery of him, when I first met him. It is very good [&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":[35322,596,42965,35504,42982],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425"}],"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=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10298,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/10298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}