art by Cher Jiang

Yale Station: Letters of Love
February 23, 1947 pm Dear Emily, What an absent minded professor I am. I asked you to our dance, thinking, cunningly (and derkly) to myself "and then I'll ask you to the Prom later on." Because, you see, the prom and our closed private dance occur on the same week-end. The prom 1s on Friday evening, March the 7th, and our dance -- one of the many little affaire which always spring up around the main event, is on Saturday night, the 8th. So now, you are asked to honor us on the GREAT night. I know you might be reluctant to accept such an invitation, having never seen me; and I suppose you know me well enough by now to knew whether or not you'd ever want to see me.. It would mean a great deal to me 1f you could come -- seems almost necessary -- but the council and I will try our best to forgive you if you snub us. So much for the planning until I hear from you. One night last week I had a conversation with myself; it was just after dinner, Ralph was playing the Wm Tell overture on the player, and Mr. Knight's "Clrcult Analysis" was growing a little thick. Therefore you can well imagine how surprised I was to hear myself say: "George, how yould you like to talk to that little girl with the 'high childlike voice'?" "What an absurb question!" I snorted. "Well, then, why don't you?" I asked. I looked up cooly and said, "You nuts, my friend?" "Not at all," this sport answered, "Just run out and call her." Although it sounded unreasonable, it wasn't at all an unpleasant ldea, but then I saw the catch. "How about the number?" I demanded, impatiently, "How'll I get hold of her in a place like New York?" This cynical customer sneered disgustedly at me and sald, "Where's your brain, my boy -- New York's a little place, not one half as big as Texas." Well, you must admit this sounded highly encouraglng, so I set out for our library phone, Just down tue hall, amazed that it had never occured to me before just how small New York really was.

letters through April 17, 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) (current letter)
  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)

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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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