{"id":2654,"date":"2012-06-19T11:52:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2013-11-06T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T15:07:42","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-april-16-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-april-16-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: April 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, April 16, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/06\/McNair-Hall-19840416-001-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, April 16, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/06\/McNair-Hall-19840416-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, April 16, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/06\/McNair-Hall-19840416-002-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, April 16, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/06\/McNair-Hall-19840416-002-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;\">April 16, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve decided to go with the enclosed version.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the only solution, unless I change lots I<br \/>\ndon\u2019t want to change&#8211;that approximate rhyming<br \/>\nat the end, for instance. Besides, this version stresses<br \/>\nwhat\u2019s essential in the poem\u2019s conclusion: the<br \/>\nmystery of twins as it appears to \u201cthey.\u201d If<br \/>\nJoey thinks the poem might work at the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">New Yorker<\/span>,<br \/>\nhe\u2019s welcome!<\/p>\n<p>About the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Concord Monitor<\/span> interview (which takes<br \/>\nplace on Wednesday): It turns out that Mike Pride<br \/>\nbought his copy of the book after seeing your recommendation<br \/>\nin his own newspaper. He read it, liked it, and the rest<br \/>\nis history! Thanks for putting the book in his view.<\/p>\n<p>I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will<\/span> try to do better this time by Jane!<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8211; Since you always respond quickly to letters,<br \/>\nI\u2019m beginning to think my most recent somehow never<br \/>\ngot to you&#8211;a long-ish letter about your poems, among<br \/>\nother things. I sent it back in March, I think,<\/p>\n<p>2\/<\/p>\n<p>but maybe you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">do<\/span> have it, come to think of it,<br \/>\nin your recent backlog of mail. I certainly<br \/>\ndon\u2019t want to push you to answer! (I don\u2019t<br \/>\neven remember much of what was in the letter&#8211;<br \/>\nso wouldn\u2019t know whether an answer is required.)<br \/>\nJust want to make sure you got the letter!<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Editorial note about this letter:<\/span><\/strong><\/em> The poem referred to in the opening of the letter is &#8220;The Shooting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2654\" data-postid=\"2654\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2654 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] April 16, 1984 Dear Don, I\u2019ve decided to go with the enclosed version. It\u2019s the only solution, unless I change lots I don\u2019t want to change&#8211;that approximate rhyming at the end, for instance. Besides, this version stresses what\u2019s essential in the poem\u2019s conclusion: the mystery of twins as it appears 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":[60366,35504,77589,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654"}],"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=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10553,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/10553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}