Egan’s goal in finding these letters was to learn more about the Brooklyn Navy Yard during WWII and women’s involvement was much more than before the draft. She learned a lot from the letters because Lucy was writing about it from a first-hand account. She had a lot of detail and description to help Egan to find out what she needed to know. Her reading of the letters became more of a hobby and she was learning while also finding a friend in the past. Her relationship with Lucy is one-sided because she knows of Lucy but it is not likewise. It develops through Lucy’s letters that Egan discovered for a research project. She learns about her professional and personal life and cant help but become absorbed in every aspect of it. Egan conveyed Lucy’s story through her own essay using lots of quotes and citations from the letters themselves. This made me feel like i was somewhat reading the letters first-hand.