{"id":2525,"date":"2012-05-10T16:03:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2013-12-18T16:27:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T20:27:56","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-march-23-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-march-23-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: March 23, 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, march 23, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19840323-001-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, March 23, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19840323-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, March 23, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19840323-002-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, March 23, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19840323-002-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;\">March 23, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>I write this from my bed, sick as a dog. I\u2019ve been here almost<br \/>\na week with the flu. The worst part is, little writing is possible,<br \/>\neven correspondence. Thus, your letter still waits for an answer. I\u2019ll<br \/>\nget to it, when I&#8211;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">if<\/span> I&#8211;ever get up from my flat-out position.<br \/>\nIn the meantime, no poems besides the ones I\u2019ve sent are available.<br \/>\nI have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">lots<\/span> of seed potatoes, but all need growing time. Can you send<br \/>\nonly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one<\/span> to Howard? Got a call from U\/MO Press: they\u2019ve sold 600+<br \/>\nof my book, before the main advertising has started! And Mike Pride<br \/>\n(editor of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Concord Monitor<\/span>) has read my book, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">likes<\/span> it, and wants to<br \/>\ndo an article on my (written by him)&#8211;interview me, attend my classes for a<br \/>\nday, take photos. This apparently does not come from the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NHTimes<\/span> thing,<br \/>\nwhich he has not seen, but only from his appreciation of the book. Or do I<br \/>\nhave you to thank? More later.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b><i>A note from McNair about this letter:<\/i><\/b><\/span> Howard is Howard Moss, poetry editor at <em>The New Yorker.<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2525\" data-postid=\"2525\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2525 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] March 23, 1984 Dear Don, I write this from my bed, sick as a dog. I\u2019ve been here almost a week with the flu. The worst part is, little writing is possible, even correspondence. Thus, your letter still waits for an answer. I\u2019ll get to it, when I&#8211;if I&#8211;ever get up [&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\/2525"}],"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=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11190,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/11190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}