art by Cher Jiang

Yale Station: Letters of Love
My Darling - Hello you! You're a student at Yale arn't you ? Well, if in your travels around the campus you should happen upon a very determined fellow named Bostick, tell him I love him, will you? Tell him I love him so much - and with the proper tone of reverence in your voice. --. Thanks, Pal ! Now at the risk of losing you- here are the pictures of Peggy. She's the one on the extreme left in both pictures, wearing a hat. Couldn't get any of her alone but these are pretty good. Once again - and for the last time - I promise - it would make me so happy if something could be arranged even if it meant only one enjoyable Sunday for her. Oh yes - about 5' 5 1/2 " - blue eyes, brown hair - intelligent - poised - sense of humor and Just plain swell! Got a letter today from a girl I haven't seen in years. On receiving such a letter, like seeing an old, almost forgotten face - the effect is curious and powerful. All the confusion and agony of those days returns in a flood. The old trapped, drowning feeling of " no way out" -. The constant, everyday almost unbelievable longing to " belong " - and nothing in all the world was truly mine -. So Louise was one of the people with whom I had nothing in common - but to whom I clung feverishly just so I could call her " friend" -. She hasn't changed at all- as I know she wouldn't- but it was good hearing from her again. I am reminded once again what a lucky little girl I am - I have you and through you a future filled with things good for my heart and good for my mind. We're going to be rich - in fact, we're fabulously wealthy already. Hope you are well, my darling. I'm not, - missing you much too much to be entirely well - . There is really little to tell you, but I am always reluctant to put my pen away. It's too much like leaving you as I did last Sunday. But I suppose , I must. So Good Night - I love you ! 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)
  23. from Emily to George, April 29, 1947 (typed) (current letter)
  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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