art by Cher Jiang

Yale Station: Letters of Love
April 22, 1947 7:05 P.M. Hello again My Dearest -- My Goodness but I'm writing under peculiar circumstances today. First behind the boss' back at the News and here at the magazine office waiting for my other boss to come. I'm getting as unpredictable as you! Sunday was a wonderful day. The happiest I've ever known. I've said that before but strangely enough it's true each time. So again I ask myself the old question, "How much more perfect can things become?" Lynne gave the gals the low-down on you Monday. Decided I was right. You are different! Also related that we were so preoccupied with one another that we hardly knew they were there. Mr. Bostick can this be so? Have we fallen so deeply in love or is it simply thet we must crowd so much into such a short space of time? After all they were in love too but there did not seem to exist that certain vibrant something between them. Lots of times it seemed I was impatient with you for professing your love so frequently but there are moments like this one that I would give anything to somehow be able to hear you say, "I love you, Miss Greatrex", like no one in the world could. There is absolutely no reason why I should ache for you. Everything is perfect. You love me and I love you and there isn't a cloud on the horizon and yet I find it intolerable being so far away from you. Also and this is not so good, I'm painfully uninterested in almost everything and everybody. Wore my new low shoes for the first time today. Everyone was most surprised since I never have in all these four years worn them. Someone dared remark, "Mmm, if it was after June I wouldn't be surprised at those low shoes!" Am once again writing a lot of nonsense, I know. But I love you so and must make contact somehow. For- glve me. It was a heavenly day. A little cool but so clear and bright. It should have been our Sunday, This is enough of empty conversation, my busy one. Good Night -- I love you!

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) (current letter)
  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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