{"id":2433,"date":"2012-05-10T14:39:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2013-11-04T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T17:43:25","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-september-6-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-september-6-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: September 6, 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, September 6, 1983, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19830906-001-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, September 6, 1983, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19830906-001-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=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\">6 September 1983<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>That is an extraordinarily helpful letter about the play\u2026<br \/>\nLater this week, I am going to dictate a whole bunch of notes \u2013<br \/>\npartly based on your letter, partly based on things I have<br \/>\nbeen thinking about for the last twelve months\u2026 I won\u2019t<br \/>\nforeshadow what I say\u2026 I will be looking for more help on<br \/>\nthe play! But really, this was very very useful.<\/p>\n<p>It is totally unbelievable that the book will be ready<br \/>\nin December! I cannot believe that\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I have one thing to tell you that you will not [want to] hear:<br \/>\ntry terribly hard not to rush the second book! Absolutely<br \/>\neverybody, and not only Wes McNair who has had to wait so damned<br \/>\nlong, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tends<\/span> to rush the second book. I did. Name me one poet<br \/>\nwho didn\u2019t? Well, old Jane Kenyon is making it at least five<br \/>\nyears, probably six.. I don\u2019t mean that you have to wait five years<br \/>\nor possibly six\u2026 I do mean that you should not, please, shoot<br \/>\nfor April!<\/p>\n<p>I should say that I had the manuscript of a second book<br \/>\nat Viking within twelve months of the time they published Exiles<br \/>\nand Marriages\u2026 Then they persuaded me to wait \u2013 but I came<br \/>\nout with The Dark Houses three years after Exiles\u2026and it was<br \/>\ntoo soon.<\/p>\n<p>We must fear depression; we must fear elation\u2026 My play<br \/>\nwas a tremendous high; my play was a tremendous low\u2026 There is<br \/>\nno avoiding this, unless we stop being poets and writers\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Thank you as ever for your good help.<\/p>\n<p>Love to you all,<\/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-2433\" data-postid=\"2433\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2433 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 6 September 1983 Wes McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, That is an extraordinarily helpful letter about the play\u2026 Later this week, I am going to dictate a whole bunch of notes \u2013 partly based on your letter, partly based on things I have been thinking about for [&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\/2433"}],"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=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10323,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/10323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}