{"id":958,"date":"2012-01-19T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=958"},"modified":"2013-10-16T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T02:39:08","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-april-11-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-april-11-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: April 11, 1978"},"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, April 11, 1978, Page 1. Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19780411-001-colby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Page-1-Hall-to-McNair-4-11-1978\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19780411-001-colby.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, April 11, 1978, Page 2. Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19780411-002-colby.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Page-2-Hall-to-McNair-4-11-1978\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19780411-002-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;\">11 April 1978<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\n5716 C.Colon<br \/>\nSantiago 10<br \/>\nChile<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>When I wrote you last, I forgot that Jane had, up stairs in her<br \/>\nstudy, your last letter, with &#8220;Beggars.&#8221; I love it. So does Jane. Could<br \/>\nI possibly have it for Harvard Magazine? Maybe you have already sent<br \/>\nit out. Very nice poem.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I miss some of those old images I cut out from Stone Walls.<br \/>\nMaybe I will use them some place else sometime. It moved too slowly,<br \/>\nand had too much repetition in it, or at least too much of the same<br \/>\nsort of thing. Too much fact, too much detail. It may still have,<br \/>\nfor that matter. But I cannot worry at it right now.<\/p>\n<p>Jane\u2019s book is being typeset now. And I had my page proofs<br \/>\nnot long ago. We are marching along in step.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m delighted that you like the Frost chapter of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Remembering Poets<\/span>.<br \/>\nI hope you like the whole thing, when you get a look at it. I think<br \/>\nthat the Ezra Pound part is the best, probably.<\/p>\n<p>Best as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/beggars\/\">\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-958\" data-postid=\"958\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-958 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 11 April 1978 Wes McNair 5716 C.Colon Santiago 10 Chile Dear Wes, When I wrote you last, I forgot that Jane had, up stairs in her study, your last letter, with &#8220;Beggars.&#8221; I love it. So does Jane. Could I possibly have it for Harvard Magazine? Maybe you have already sent [&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":[35316,596,42965,35504,35505],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958"}],"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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9090,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/9090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}