{"id":2650,"date":"2012-06-19T11:40:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2013-12-18T16:41:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T20:41:42","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-april-10-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-april-10-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: April 10, 1984"},"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, April 10, 1984, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/06\/Hall-McNair-19840410-001-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, April 10, 1984, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/06\/Hall-McNair-19840410-001-colby.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"href=\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"\" src=\"alt=\" \/><\/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;\">10 April 1984<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nSutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>I got back up here on March 31st, but Lois had to<br \/>\ngo away, and so my letters are delayed. In \u201cThe Shooting,\u201d<br \/>\nI did indeed think that \u201cthey\u201d was subject of \u201ccalled\u2026\u201d<br \/>\nAnd it is still hard for me to take it the way you want<br \/>\nit. Therefore my comma was incorrect \u2013 but I feel an<br \/>\nambiguity there. Has anybody else had this problem?<\/p>\n<p>However, I don\u2019t mind sending one poem into old<br \/>\nHoward.<\/p>\n<p>Very good about the sales of the book!<\/p>\n<p>Very good to hear about Mike Pride, who did the<br \/>\nvery good very long interview with me a year and a half<br \/>\nago\u2026 He loves poetry. He would not be doing this if<br \/>\nhe did not love your poetry. I did talk to him about you,<br \/>\nand I think I sent him one of the copies that I bought\u2026<br \/>\nor did I get you to send him one?<\/p>\n<p>Time to mention Jane + Green House? X<\/p>\n<p>Don<br \/>\n[<em>Written in margin<\/em>: X I don\u2019t think<br \/>\nMike has any<br \/>\nnotion of how<br \/>\ngood she is]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span><span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b><i>A note from McNair about this letter:<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Don urges me in his last paragraph to mention Jane&#8217;s early role in encouraging me as a poet when I am interviewed, in particular her publication of my poems in <em>Green House<\/em>. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2650\" data-postid=\"2650\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2650 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 10 April 1984 Wes McNair Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, I got back up here on March 31st, but Lois had to go away, and so my letters are delayed. In \u201cThe Shooting,\u201d I did indeed think that \u201cthey\u201d was subject of \u201ccalled\u2026\u201d And it is still hard for me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60366,596,42965,35504,77589],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650"}],"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\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11197,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/11197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}