{"id":2507,"date":"2012-05-10T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T19:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2013-12-18T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T02:05:00","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-february-16-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-february-16-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: February 16, 1984"},"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, February 16, 1984, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19840216-001-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, February 16, 1984, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19840216-001-unh.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;\">February 16, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>Just wanted to tell you I got a terrific call<br \/>\nfrom Peter Davison, who asked if he could make<br \/>\na small change in the \u201cShorty Towers\u201d poem<br \/>\n(from the numeral \u201c5\u201d to the word \u201cfive\u201d).<br \/>\nAfter I said yes, he congratulated me for<br \/>\nthe Devins Award, and then said he understood why<br \/>\nDavid Wagoner liked my poetry because he (Davison)<br \/>\nthought it was wonderful\u2014said that he\u2019d decided<br \/>\nto put this poem in the next issue, he liked it<br \/>\nso much, and that I\u2019d likely get a lot of good<br \/>\nmail about it.<\/p>\n<p>I just couldn\u2019t resist bragging about this\u2014<br \/>\ntelling Diane wasn\u2019t enough! By the way,<br \/>\nwhen does that poem you unretired come out in<br \/>\nthe New Yorker? Any idea? I\u2019d love to see it\u2014<br \/>\nor maybe a copy if you have one!<\/p>\n<p>Love to you &amp; Jane,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-last-time-shorty-towers-fetched-the-cows\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Last Time Shorty Towers Fetched the Cows<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(published version)<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2507\" data-postid=\"2507\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2507 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] February 16, 1984 Dear Don, Just wanted to tell you I got a terrific call from Peter Davison, who asked if he could make a small change in the \u201cShorty Towers\u201d poem (from the numeral \u201c5\u201d to the word \u201cfive\u201d). After I said yes, he congratulated me for the Devins Award, [&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":[60366,35504,77589,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507"}],"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=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}