{"id":2429,"date":"2012-05-10T14:37:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2013-12-17T17:59:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T21:59:21","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-august-29-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-august-29-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: August 29, 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 29, 1983, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19830829-001-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 29, 1983, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19830829-001-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;\">29 August 1983<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>The contract is OK. The royalty stinks \u2013 but not to worry.<br \/>\nThey\u2019re just cutting their losses. I don\u2019t think they should<br \/>\nexempt the first five hundred from royalties\u2026and I think they<br \/>\nshould pay ten per cent of retail\u2026but giving you five hundred<br \/>\ndollars pretty much makes up the difference! You probably will<br \/>\nnot see anything after that five hundred, but it does not matter \u2013<br \/>\nthe book\u2019s the thing. And copyright reverts to you after it goes<br \/>\nout of print \u2013 the most important single item in the contract.<br \/>\n(There have been occasions on which a publisher has published a<br \/>\nbook of poems, let it go out of print, and then retained ownership<br \/>\nin the poems \u2013 so that when the poor poet wants to reprint the<br \/>\nbest of his poems for a Selected Poems, or for virtually ever in<br \/>\nanthologies, the original rotten publisher keeps getting money for<br \/>\nthe poems! No problem here.)<\/p>\n<p>Jane is perceptibly-better. She can read a tiny bit of print<br \/>\nnow, for a short time. Very slow \u2013 but definitely in the right<br \/>\ndirection!<\/p>\n<p>OK, I will hold off on that poem until I get it from you again<br \/>\nwith others.<\/p>\n<p>Could you possibly drop me a note about the problems in the<br \/>\nlast act, at some point? But we look forward to seeing you also.<br \/>\nBut I don\u2019t know when that will be!<\/p>\n<p>Love to you both as ever,<\/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><strong> <\/strong><\/em><\/span>Though it has been lost,\u00a0I wrote Don an extensive critique of the third act of <em>Ragged Mountain Elegies<\/em>, following his request in the last paragraph.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2429\" data-postid=\"2429\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2429 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 29 August 1983 Wes McNair Dear Wes, The contract is OK. The royalty stinks \u2013 but not to worry. They\u2019re just cutting their losses. I don\u2019t think they should exempt the first five hundred from royalties\u2026and I think they should pay ten per cent of retail\u2026but giving you five hundred dollars [&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\/2429"}],"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=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11144,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/11144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}