{"id":2483,"date":"2012-05-10T15:13:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T19:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2013-12-17T18:23:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:23:52","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-december-28-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-december-28-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: December 28, 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, December 28, 1983, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19831228-001-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, December 28, 1983, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19831228-001-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;\">28 December 1983<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nHominy Pot Rd.<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>Good to hear from you. And it was lovely to see you at<br \/>\nCarlton\u2019s. I do <del datetime=\"2012-05-10T19:13:07+00:00\">bore you<\/del> worry about Carlton \u2013 he looks bad, and<br \/>\nhe seems to be taking this move hard.<\/p>\n<p>Jane has sold five poems in the last week! One to<br \/>\nSeneca, two to APR, and two to Poetry. What a lady to live<br \/>\nwith! I did sell one to The New Yorker though. A longish<br \/>\none.<\/p>\n<p>Very good, selling sixteen books. That is better than<br \/>\npar. You are marketing them well! A+ in marketing! Too bad<br \/>\nabout the job&#8230;but you have to try for two hundred in order<br \/>\nto get one&#8230; It is sort of like publishing a book!<\/p>\n<p>I would be delighted to be contacted about being<br \/>\nan ex-judge at the Devins. $2500 is a lot or a little depending<br \/>\nupon how many manuscripts they want you to read. After judging<br \/>\nfor the NEA last summer, I am not in the mood to read very many&#8230;<br \/>\nWe will see.<\/p>\n<p>I dictate this just before going out to Ann Arbor, and<br \/>\nwill not mail it until I get back &#8230;in case this seems out of<br \/>\ndate.<\/p>\n<p>Love 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><\/em> <\/span>Carlton, the owner of the bookstore where I signed my book, was about to move to a new store space in New London.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2483\" data-postid=\"2483\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2483 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 28 December 1983 Wes McNair Hominy Pot Rd. North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, Good to hear from you. And it was lovely to see you at Carlton\u2019s. I do bore you worry about Carlton \u2013 he looks bad, and he seems to be taking this move hard. Jane has sold [&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\/2483"}],"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=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11166,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/11166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}