{"id":2461,"date":"2012-05-10T14:56:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2013-11-04T14:43:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T18:43:16","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-november-2-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-november-2-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: November 2, 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, November 2, 1983, Page 1, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19831102-001-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, November 2, 1983, Page 1, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19831102-001-colby.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, November 2, 1983, Page 2, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19831102-002-colby.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, November 2, 1983, Page 2, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19831102-002-colby.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;\">2 November 1983<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>Maybe my praise of Ironwood is eccentric&#8230;<br \/>\nbut it is good, and Cuddihy is hard to satisfy.<br \/>\nI\u2019m delighted.<\/p>\n<p>There is a bunch of four poems which has<br \/>\nbeen turned down by a lot of good places \u2013<br \/>\nother poems snatched away from their companion \u2013<br \/>\nship. I wonder if you would be interested in<br \/>\nletting Costanzo see them? I speak of The Minister\u2019s<br \/>\nDeath, Thruway, My Brother Inside&#8230; The Before<br \/>\nPeople&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There is another bunch at the New Yorker<br \/>\nright now of course.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there are other magazines \u2013<br \/>\npossibly more prestigious than Three Rivers\u2026<br \/>\nbut, as you know, I think it might be a good<br \/>\nnotion.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to do it, just send your<br \/>\ncopies yourself in your own name directly to<br \/>\nGerry&#8230; Then, when he replies, if he does<br \/>\nnot take all of them, just let me know which<br \/>\nones are still available&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2\/<\/p>\n<p>But if you would rather Joey sent them out<br \/>\nelsewhere, just say the word.<\/p>\n<p>Best 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-2461\" data-postid=\"2461\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2461 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 2 November 1983 Wes McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH Dear Wes, Maybe my praise of Ironwood is eccentric&#8230; but it is good, and Cuddihy is hard to satisfy. I\u2019m delighted. There is a bunch of four poems which has been turned down by a lot of good places \u2013 other [&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\/2461"}],"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=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10358,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/10358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}