art by Cher Jiang

Yale Station: Letters of Love
Good evening, my Darling. See the funny little girl staring at you from this picture? Her skin was bad and her hair straight. She was skinny and tremulous , full of plans and dreams. She was ______ if it was good to be alive. She was ______ what it meant to be alive. She loved but was not so much loved. She was moving slowly, day by day, towards you. She wrote verses, even then to you. Many or perhaps not so many people have made me ready for you. Somebody found my heart, hurt it a little and that gave it the knowledge of its full capacity for love. Some few delighted in my mind, fed it little bits of good, clear, thought. Polished it a little. A few knew the joy I'm capable of feeling and gave me bits of magic to delight in. I would love to see them all this night. See them and thank them. I would say, " Bless you and thank you for myself. All of you, who, day by day, have put the lights and shadows in my thinking. Who have given me a moment of laughter or even a tear. Who have forced me to see a truth, though a pain lay therein. And, oh!, you very few who followed me across and beyond the line of everyday thinking - who dared ask the forbidden question -who dared understand -. I would say too - " You did not know it was a task . That now it is a task well done! For he loves me - all of the corners, ,all of the finished and unfinished. He loves the hunger, and confusion and the fear. Not a thing any of you have done, any of you I have passed and left along the way, has been wasted. For, he loves me. I thank you. I wish it were possible for each of you to find your key to your own particular universe as I have." Do you know, it is a strange thought for me but I do not think I will be afraid of dying when it is time -. I love you so-. Your. Emily

letters through June 1, 1947

  1. from another correspondent, January 6, 1947 (typed)
  2. from George to Emily, February 19, 1947 (handwritten)
  3. from George to Emily, February 21, 1947 (typed)
  4. from George to Emily, February 22, 1947 (typed)
  5. from George to Emily, February 23, 1947 (typed)
  6. from George to Emily, March 14, 1947 (typed)
  7. from Emily to George, March 23, 1947 (typed)
  8. from Emily to George, March 24, 1947 (typed)
  9. from Emily to George, March 29, 1947 (typed)
  10. from George to Emily, April 5, 1947 (typed)
  11. from George to Emily, April 6, 1947 (typed)
  12. from George to Emily, April 7, 1947 (typed)
  13. from George to Emily, April 7, 1947 (typed)
  14. from George to Emily, April 7, 1947 (handwritten)
  15. from Emily to George, April 9, 1947 (handwritten)
  16. from George to Emily, April 10, 1947 (typed)
  17. from Emily to George, April 15, 1947 (handwritten)
  18. from George to Emily, April 18, 1947 (typed)
  19. from George to Emily, April 21, 1947 (typed)
  20. from Emily to George, April 22, 1947 (typed)
  21. from George to Emily, April 22, 1947 (typed)
  22. from Emily to George, April 25, 1947 (typed) (current letter)
  23. from Emily to George, April 29, 1947 (typed)
  24. from George to Emily, May 21, 1947 (typed)
  25. from George to Emily, May 30, 1947 (typed)

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Minnie Renzer Bostick (1881-1955), father of Glyn Bostick, Fort Worth, Texas, 1911.
Minnie Renzer Bostick and wife Lily, on the road near Childress, Texas, 1938.
Emily Greatrex in New York City, 1939.
Emily Greatrex (left) with her friend Millie Gonzales-Coto, 1939.
Glyn Bostick, San Francisco, March 21, 1942.
Emily Greatrex (upper left) helps decorate The New York Daily News office Christmas tree, 1942.
Emily Greatrex, age 23, July, 1944.
Emily Greatrex, November 13, 1944.
Clipping from The New York Daily News, January 6, 1947.
Emily Bostick with first child Chris, Long Island, New York, March 13, 1952.
Glyn Bostick arm wrestling with Diane and Chris, Syracuse, New York, March 25, 1959.
Glyn Bostick, posed portrait, Syracuse, New York, January 23, 1983.
Glyn Bostick U.S. passport photograph, June 14, 1990.
Glyn and Emily Bostick, Syracuse, New York, March, 1997.

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