art by Cher Jiang

Yale Station: Letters of Love
April 22, 1947 NEW HAVEN, CONN. Apr. 22: A very strange incident was witnessed in this quaint old New England town tonight. A letter, apparently a non-resident, for it seemed unfamiliar with the city, asking for one G. Bostick, a local of ill-repute. It refused to give its name, but from the foreign accent, it was deduced by our linguist that it either came from the middle province of hung chow or the Bronx -- a little place just outside New York Clty. Darling, so you see, letters can carry themselves. This item was taken from the Daily Refuse, New York's Fiction Newspaper. And the letter carried all sorts of good things. One of them 1ife -- pure, virile, bubbling life. I liked "A Consecration" -- Masefield, but as you said, didn't agree too closely with "If Thou Must Love Me". Of course, "her smile -- her look -- her way Of speaking gently, -- trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day" -- Are not the greatest things I love about her -- but I love them also -- and how can we know people, no matter how deeply we are like them, if we can not look in at the windows of their smiles, eyes, and thought? I'm sure, to be crude, that one does not buy a Ford simply because it is a Ford -- that particular car hag characteristics which make Ford a good name -- not lhe other way around. But I'm a fool to sit here trying to define something which doesn't need to be defined for us. The simple and wonderful fact is that I love youl You have great taste, my small one. I have to keep on my toes to stay up with you.
2 You're a very precious little being, if I do say so myself. Must get back. Tell everyone hello.

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) (current letter)
  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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