{"id":2435,"date":"2012-05-10T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2013-11-04T13:45:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T17:45:21","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-september-6-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-september-6-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: 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 McNair to Hall, September 6, 1983, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19830906-001-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, September 6, 1983, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19830906-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, September 6, 1983, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19830906-002-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, September 6, 1983, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19830906-002-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;\">September 6, 1983<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>Silly, perhaps, but I want you to know that the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Argus<\/span><br \/>\narticle about Wesley McNair misquoted me in the section about<br \/>\nthe \u201cmajor publishing house\u201d (by which was meant Harper &amp; Row).<br \/>\nThe article said the major publishing house dropped my book<br \/>\n\u201cfrom the publication schedule\u201d, then \u201cstopped doing books of poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">said<\/span> the book had been dropped <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">before<\/span> it was put on the<br \/>\npublication schedule. Then (at some other point) I talked of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">other<\/span><br \/>\ncommercial houses that have stopped doing poetry.<\/p>\n<p>And there was other misinformation, less consequential.<br \/>\nBut this particular instance was serious enough, I thought,<br \/>\nfor at least a few words on this card to let you know I still<br \/>\nremember how it really happened at H &amp; R.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2435\" data-postid=\"2435\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2435 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] September 6, 1983 Dear Don, Silly, perhaps, but I want you to know that the Argus article about Wesley McNair misquoted me in the section about the \u201cmajor publishing house\u201d (by which was meant Harper &amp; Row). The article said the major publishing house dropped my book \u201cfrom the publication schedule\u201d, [&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\/2435"}],"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=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10324,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/10324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}