{"id":3891,"date":"2012-08-15T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T15:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2013-12-18T17:41:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T21:41:13","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-november-9-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-november-9-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair, November 9, 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, November 9, 1984, Page 1, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/Hall-McNair-19841109-001-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, November 9, 1984, Page 1, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/Hall-McNair-19841109-001-colby.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, November 9, 1984, Page 2, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/Hall-McNair-19841109-002-colby.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, November 9, 1984, Page 2, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/Hall-McNair-19841109-002-colby.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;\">9 November 1984<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>Dick Smart is a terrific guy \u2013 and so is Nan.<br \/>\n[<em>Written in margin:<\/em>] not guy<br \/>\nI look forward to the dinner \u2013 but I need to know<br \/>\nwhere to go. Where is the dinner? Good that Carl and<br \/>\nEleanor will be there.<\/p>\n<p>Now I see Diane all the time, as I pop around for<br \/>\nairline tickets. That\u2019s good. But lately I spend a total<br \/>\nof about fifteen seconds in the office\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Will anything ever slow down? Things are a bit<br \/>\nknotty just now.<\/p>\n<p>That would be good, if Jane could read at Colby-Sawyer<br \/>\nnest [sic] time.<\/p>\n<p>See you soon. I\u2019m delighted to read again at old<br \/>\nCS <del datetime=\"2012-08-15T14:38:24+00:00\">at<\/del> of which I am now an alumnus, heaven knows. Best as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A note from McNair about this letter:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0In his second paragraph, about Diane, Don refers to her work for him as a travel agent in New London.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3891\" data-postid=\"3891\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3891 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 9 November 1984 Wes McNair Dear Wes, Dick Smart is a terrific guy \u2013 and so is Nan. [Written in margin:] not guy I look forward to the dinner \u2013 but I need to know where to go. Where is the dinner? Good that Carl and Eleanor will be there. Now [&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\/3891"}],"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=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11231,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions\/11231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}