art by Cher Jiang

Yale Station: Letters of Love
April 15, 1947 7:15 pm My Darling -- Surely, I have been in love with you before Sunday but what has happened, since Sunday has not exactly occurred before. Though not a strange phenomenon -- it is new to me, that being -- that you have not left me one single moment since Sunday. I have been constantly, unceasingly longing for you even to the point of thinking I would hie me off to Connecticut tonight. How foolishly inadequate to say -- I love you! Told my gang tonight over our nightly coffee. Had to. They asked when I would take my vacation -- I told them -- Well each face said -- but one voice spoke -- “Emily, you wouldn’t -- you couldn’t get married without telling us?” No I couldn’t. I’m the first of our bunch to take the all important step. Could not cheat them of the chance to make a fuss over me. Mother and Dad took it graciously. Dad still thinks we should have waited. My darling -- we are possessed with more than a day in problems. Cannot tell you how glad I am that this wedding of ours will have some of the close-knit family preparations so dear to the hearts of many. I knew that I’m greatly loved but no one has insisted on being at my wedding (other than my gang). Glad it will all be quiet and inexpensive for I feel it suffices. We married in a greater sense some time ago. Today was an achingly, lonely day of Spring! Inside my heart -- outside the office window. Everyone rushing like mad to the nurse’s office for a vaccination. Seems there’s an epidemic of Smallpox here in the city. I’ll get mine tomorrow (vaccination that is -- not Smallpox!) Sister Sue just ambled into the kitchen -- sends her regards. And to you -- my miracle -- my only dream which ever came true -- a very good night -- and I love you. Your Emily -- P.S. Anxious to know if you received the pictures. Wasn’t sealed too securely.

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)
  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) (current letter)

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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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