art by Cher Jiang

Yale Station: Letters of Love
May 21, 1947 My Small One, So! Doping off on the job, I'll bet if I ever become anyone's boss, my stenogs and office girld won't find it difficult to get up and come to work mornings. I'll first give them Dr. Bostick's knee-sitting course -- or my "Pointers on Promoting Productive Prestige". Would you like to enroll? The yearlings are all bedded down for the night. Only occasionally do 1 hear a lowing fron the stables. They're looking interestedly forward to this marriage almost as enthusiastically as I -- hmmmm, I wonder. (16 days, me proud beauty). What with all the suitors Miss Greatrex has brushed off, one wnders how I ever got into the picture. But I'm there and try and reuove ue. No, I don't think the wedding will be as uproarious as you fear. I'll do everything possible to make it a quiet one -- since that's what we both want. A few people are, of course, inevitable. We'll leave just as lt converges on a drinking bout. Incidentally, I got the deed fixed up -- had to make it over again, but it's on its merry way back. It very late, Small One -- and I must straighten up this pile of papers for tomorrow. Goodnight
Does each man see This "surging up to skies" Does each man feel The pain of all that dies In what he loves? Do all their days Banded and whipped And barred, find ways To feel the surging out The rushing in -- Does each one hear Alone above the din And livings' rattle -- One clear call -- Soundless -- and yet Mightier than all!

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)
  24. from George to Emily, May 21, 1947 (typed) (current letter)
  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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