{"id":2485,"date":"2012-05-10T15:14:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T19:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2013-12-17T18:24:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:24:27","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-december-29-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-december-29-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: December 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, December 29, 1983, Page 1, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19831229-001-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 29, 1983, Page 1, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19831229-001-colby.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, December 29, 1983, Page 2, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19831229-002-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, December 29, 1983, Page 2, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19831229-002-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;\">29 Dec. 1983<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I keep throwing out these little fire-<br \/>\ncrackers&#8230;and some of them do go off! Of course<br \/>\nthis one has only <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">partly<\/span> gone off so far. I think<br \/>\nit will be a good place to print, and they pay<br \/>\nfairly well. But we will see. I have consulted<br \/>\nMr. Amaryllis, who claims that there is nothing<br \/>\navailable at the moment, but when something is<br \/>\navailable, it goes to Bobby the Rich&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And I came home yesterday from Michigan to find<br \/>\nthat they had taken all two of my poems, which will<br \/>\nbe out in the April edition, which will be the first<br \/>\nissue with poetry, and they wrote a most flattering<br \/>\nletter. I like that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>I think you ought to write Robert Richman<br \/>\nand tell him that you are delighted, and that he will<br \/>\nreceive poems, but that they will be sent to him<br \/>\nby a friend of yours named Joseph Amaryllis who sends<\/p>\n<p>2\/<\/p>\n<p>out your poems.<\/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> As this section concludes, both of us have prospects for publication with magazines &#8212; and Jane does, too &#8212; mine resulting from one more firecracker set off by Donald Hall.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2485\" data-postid=\"2485\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2485 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 29 Dec. 1983 Wes McNair Dear Wes, Yes, I keep throwing out these little fire- crackers&#8230;and some of them do go off! Of course this one has only partly gone off so far. I think it will be a good place to print, and they pay fairly well. But we will [&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\/2485"}],"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=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11168,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/11168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}