art by Cher Jiang

Yale Station: Letters of Love
49 shopping days (and its not til Christmas) April 21, 1947 My Small One, Everything makes me impatient these deys -- I want things to rush along -- because there 1s something very nice to rush to; but the world cares very little about that -- just moves sluggishly along at its usual old pace. I wish there were some way to capture the way you look at me on Sundays when you're getting ready to go home. At times like those, I wish very sincerely thet my profession was art instead of engineering. -- they are looks of adoration so decp and personal, that I unconsciously look around -- wondering that others are not sharing this very loud feeling with me. But why try to describe it, when I hardly know, clearly, just what is is. But I only know that they are moments when I stand on a tall, majestic crest -- knowing that I will never be raised higher than this in any human mind or heart -- that I will never be richer than this. In the upward valleys Shouts are heard; In the greener pastures Travels word Of some familiar story New again; Like sunshine after alpine snow... or Rain. (Silver bells at midnight -- Horns at hoon.) Spun on longing-feedin Or the moon Or rippling in the water Of a dream That left some eon back, The Mother stream To flow into this valley -- On this field, And burst the heart with fullness Of its yield.

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) (current letter)
  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)
  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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