{"id":3777,"date":"2012-08-13T15:47:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T19:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2013-12-18T22:14:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T02:14:30","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-july-23-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-july-23-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall, July 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, July 23, 1984, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840723-001-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, July 23, 1984, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840723-001-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;\">July 23, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>I await your judgment of the enclosed.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I trust Joey will find a<br \/>\nway to spend the money you\u2019ve found in here<br \/>\n(re: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Poetry<\/span> sale) \u2013 not quite enough for medication,<br \/>\nbut more than sufficient for a bean and cole \u2013<br \/>\nslaw dinner in Blackwater Bills\u2019, which is bound<br \/>\nto make medication unnecessary anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">regret<\/span> I somehow did not receive my July<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Atlantic<\/span> (got June late, and then <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">August<\/span>), since<br \/>\nsomebody told me awhile back you have a poem in it.<br \/>\nIf it\u2019s handy for you to send a photocopy,<br \/>\nI\u2019d love to see the poem\u2026if not, I\u2019ll see<br \/>\nit when (if) the subscription people respond<br \/>\nto my complaint.<\/p>\n<p>At Kathleen Anderson\u2019s [\u2013NORTON] request, sent what I now<br \/>\nhave at the manuscript-to-be. Am trying<br \/>\nto EXPECT NOTHING!<\/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 enclosed with this letter is &#8220;The Name.&#8221; This is the poem as McNair sent it, deciding to keep it this way despite the concerns Hall voices in the following letter:<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-name-from-the-town-of-no\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The Name<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (published version from <em>The Town of No<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A note from McNair about this letter:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>In my dual reprint, The Town of No &amp; My Brother Running, I changed the poem to the version below, which deletes line 10 (&#8220;including his&#8221;). I made the change because I found that this line, with which I meant to refer to the woman&#8217;s husband, confused readers. Besides, I wanted to emphasize the poem&#8217;s main drama, between the woman and her daughter:<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-name\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The Name<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (published version from <em>The Town of No &amp; My Brother Running<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3777\" data-postid=\"3777\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3777 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] July 23, 1984 Dear Don, I await your judgment of the enclosed. In the meantime, I trust Joey will find a way to spend the money you\u2019ve found in here (re: Poetry sale) \u2013 not quite enough for medication, but more than sufficient for a bean and cole \u2013 slaw dinner [&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\/3777"}],"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=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11419,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions\/11419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}