{"id":616,"date":"2011-11-28T17:08:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T21:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=616"},"modified":"2013-12-09T13:19:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T17:19:11","slug":"12-16-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/12-16-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: December 16, 1976"},"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, December 16, 1976, Inside. Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/11\/McNair-Hall-19761216-001-unh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"McNair-to-Hall-12-16-1976-Inside\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/11\/McNair-Hall-19761216-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, December 16, 1976, Outside. Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/11\/McNair-Hall-19761216-002-unh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"McNair-to-Hall-12-16-1976-Outside\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2011\/11\/McNair-Hall-19761216-002-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;\">Dec 16, 1976<\/p>\n<p>Don-<\/p>\n<p>How long can a ball-point pen last when one is on the<br \/>\ncouch writing upside-down? Perhaps as long as this letter<br \/>\ndoes.<\/p>\n<p>Have been in touch with Betsy Tunis (The baseball<br \/>\nresearcher) &amp; she says she will be ringing you soon. Be prepared.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the publishing house in Peterboro is WILLIAM BAUGHAN.<br \/>\nThey do art books (one on Barry Faulkner recently) &amp;<br \/>\n[<em>Written in margin<\/em>: IN NOAH&#8217;S WAKE]<br \/>\npoetry books (cfs Allen Block). Stephen Greene, about which<br \/>\nwe talked earlier, seems limited to recipe books &amp;<br \/>\nunpredictable \u201cspecialties\u201d &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Will stop before my pen does &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Yrs,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/p>\n<p>PS. Was that you I saw in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Blackwater Gazette<\/span>?<br \/>\nMy, what big eyes you have! Merry Christmas<br \/>\nto you both-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>A note from McNair about this letter:<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>Don had a baseball question for my friend, Betsy Tunis. He has also asked me to provide names of small New Hampshire publishers who might print a chapbook he had in mind.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-616\" data-postid=\"616\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-616 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] Dec 16, 1976 Don- How long can a ball-point pen last when one is on the couch writing upside-down? Perhaps as long as this letter does. Have been in touch with Betsy Tunis (The baseball researcher) &amp; she says she will be ringing you soon. Be prepared. Also, the publishing house [&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":[35493,35504,35505,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10841,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/10841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}