{"id":3847,"date":"2012-08-15T09:47:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T13:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2013-11-06T16:52:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T20:52:18","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-september-20-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-september-20-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair, September 20, 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, September 20, 1984, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/Hall-McNair-19840920-001-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, September 20, 1984, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/Hall-McNair-19840920-001-colby.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;\">20 September 1984<\/p>\n<p>Wesley McNair<br \/>\nHominy Pot Rd.<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>Joey just made a submission to the New Yorker.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t like Perley Hunt quite so much as other recent things,<br \/>\nbut will be happy to send it out. It seems thin for its length, to take<br \/>\nkind of a long way to say things\u2026wonder about \u201calternate\/other\u201d as<br \/>\nredundancy\u2026 I wonder if I might like it better if it were speeded up<br \/>\nsimply by being printed as one stanza. It seems a little slow to me.<br \/>\nThen the last two lines\u2026I guess I really doubt them. The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">positive<\/span><br \/>\nside of \u201cmiracle\u201d seems a little strained, maybe, and maybe as if you<br \/>\nwere trying to drag a lyrical or glorified ending out of your hat\u2026and<br \/>\nreally if there were not so much space, and therefore delay, one might<br \/>\ncome on the last couplet more as a combination of surprise and as of<br \/>\nmatter of fact\u2026a funny combination but I think it might be better.<br \/>\nIf there were any other way to trim it down a bit, make it move more<br \/>\nquickly, maybe I would like it better. But I don\u2019t dislike it a whole<br \/>\nlot either. I like the old fellow, and think he is well observed.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with Dartmouth. I hope you can continue to write and<br \/>\nuse your time\u2026and at the same time I hope you like it, and I hope they<br \/>\nlike you \u2013 and that it may lead to some better form of employment in the<br \/>\nfuture.<\/p>\n<p>Best as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3847\" data-postid=\"3847\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3847 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 20 September 1984 Wesley McNair Hominy Pot Rd. North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, Joey just made a submission to the New Yorker. We don\u2019t like Perley Hunt quite so much as other recent things, but will be happy to send it out. It seems thin for its length, to take [&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\/3847"}],"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=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10682,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/10682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}