{"id":868,"date":"2012-01-17T18:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T22:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=868"},"modified":"2021-11-11T14:58:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T18:58:03","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-july-6-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-july-6-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: July 6, 1977"},"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 6, 1977. Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19770706-001-unh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19770706-001-unh.jpg\" alt=\"McNair-to-Hall-7-6-1977\" 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 6, 1977<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>During the next academic year, the American Studies program<br \/>\nat Colby-Sawyer will sponsor a small lecture series called \u201cThe<br \/>\nRufus Porter Lectures in American Studies\u201d. The students and faculty<br \/>\nconnected with the program have chosen you as one of the lecturers<br \/>\nin that series. Given your developing repertoire of anecdotes about<br \/>\nnineteenth-century American literary figures, we would very much<br \/>\nlike you to share some of your favorite such anecdotes with our<br \/>\nAmerican studies majors and other interested members of the CSC<br \/>\ncommunity. (The audience will be relatively small &#8212; probably 25-40<br \/>\npeople.)<\/p>\n<p>The honorarium for each of the Rufus Porter Lectures is $75.00- &#8211;<br \/>\nnot enough, I know, for your services, but as much as our small<br \/>\nprogram budget will allow us to pay. Should you elect to participate<br \/>\nin the series, we would like you to give your lecture on November<br \/>\n10, at 8:00 PM in James House.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d appreciate your letting me know as soon as possible<br \/>\nwhether you\u2019re interested in being one of our lecturers. Needless<br \/>\nto say, we\u2019d feel honored if you\u2019d come.<\/p>\n<p>Yours,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/p>\n<p>(Co-ordinator of American Studies)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-868\" data-postid=\"868\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-868 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] July 6, 1977 Dear Don, During the next academic year, the American Studies program at Colby-Sawyer will sponsor a small lecture series called \u201cThe Rufus Porter Lectures in American Studies\u201d. The students and faculty connected with the program have chosen you as one of the lecturers in that series. Given your [&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":[27136,35504,35505,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"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=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14135,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/14135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}