“Your friendship has shed a ray of light on my solitary way, and though removed from the influence of you immediate presence, I exist only in hope of seeing you again” (Letter V., page 79)

I found this line in the text very interesting because it is the first time the writer of the letters gets into depth about who she is writing to and the significance of that person in her life. When she says “solitary way”, she is talking about her existing alone, her companionless life. The friendship she has with this man she is referring to, Colonel Burr, has lightened up her life a little bit, and has brought her some type of joy. She continues to acknowledge that they have been separated, but mentions that her main concern is reuniting with this man soon, and that she “exists only in the hope of seeing you again”.

This line relates back to the text as a whole because she talks about her previous life and history with this man, prior to this line. She mentions her being an orphan, without any friends or family around her, with little hope or faith in life itself. Then, this man’s care saves her. He rescues her and raises her, an act that she will forever be grateful for. She calls their friendship “so necessary to my happiness that the idea of losing you is insupportable”.  He must be of great importance to her if she is writing all these letters to him.