{"id":887,"date":"2012-01-19T13:13:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T17:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=887"},"modified":"2013-10-23T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T15:52:13","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-august-2-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-august-2-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: August 2, 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, August 2, 1977, Page 1. Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19770802-001-unh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Page-1-McNair-to-Hall-8-2-1977\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19770802-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, August 2, 1977, Page 2. Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19770802-002-unh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Page-2-McNair-to-Hall-8-2-1977\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19770802-002-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;\">Aug 2, 1977<\/p>\n<p>Don &amp; Jane \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Can I be forgiven a few<br \/>\nextra days with your poems?<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, what with fixing<br \/>\nup the house for renters,<br \/>\npreparing the calendar ^etc. for the<br \/>\nAm. Studies program and making<br \/>\narrangements for departure<br \/>\n(this last was endless), I<br \/>\njust haven\u2019t had time to give<br \/>\nthe things you kindly left in<br \/>\nmy care the audience they need<br \/>\nand deserve \u2013<\/p>\n<p>2\/<\/p>\n<p>I promise proper attention to<br \/>\nall writings when I get to Chile.<br \/>\nYou will hear from me soon \u2013about<br \/>\nthat and about our adventures<br \/>\nand misadventures.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your tolerance.<br \/>\nWe will miss you both but will<br \/>\nclose the distance soon via<br \/>\ncorrespondence \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Affectionately,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Superficially speaking, I feel<br \/>\nvery positive about the book, and<br \/>\nDon, you know something of what<br \/>\nI feel anyway about Stone walls.<br \/>\nBut superficial speaking isn\u2019t good enough. More soon!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/stone-walls\/\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-887\" data-postid=\"887\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-887 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] Aug 2, 1977 Don &amp; Jane \u2013 Can I be forgiven a few extra days with your poems? Honestly, what with fixing up the house for renters, preparing the calendar ^etc. for the Am. Studies program and making arrangements for departure (this last was endless), I just haven\u2019t had time to [&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\/887"}],"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=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9378,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/9378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}