{"id":3687,"date":"2012-08-08T17:07:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T21:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2013-12-18T22:12:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T02:12:18","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-may-28-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-may-28-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall, May 28, 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, May 28, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840528-001-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, May 28, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840528-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, May 28, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840528-002-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, May 28, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840528-002-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;\">May 28, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>What a pleasure to see you get that new square<br \/>\nfor your honorary quilt!&#8211;even though I was sorry<br \/>\nyou had to earn it by suffering through that Solemn<br \/>\nTribute to your literary contribution.<\/p>\n<p>And I wanted to say, too, how much I liked<br \/>\nthe \u201cSister by the Pond\u201d poem I finally got the chance<br \/>\nto pore over (in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Iowa Review<\/span>). I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">love<\/span> that part 6!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;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>\u00a0I refer in my first paragraph to Don&#8217;s receiving an honorary degree at the May Colby-Sawyer Commencement&#8230;. The definitive version of &#8220;Sister by the Pond&#8221; is somewhat different from the one I read in <em>The Iowa Review. <\/em>Don\u00a0has already revised the poem when he receives this note. Nonetheless, the final published version, below, is close to the one I saw.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/a-sister-by-the-pond\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">A Sister by the Pond<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(published version)<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3687\" data-postid=\"3687\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3687 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] May 28, 1984 Dear Don, What a pleasure to see you get that new square for your honorary quilt!&#8211;even though I was sorry you had to earn it by suffering through that Solemn Tribute to your literary contribution. And I wanted to say, too, how much I liked the \u201cSister by [&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\/3687"}],"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=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11417,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions\/11417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}