The story was told in the form of a letter from a wife and mother to her husband.
However, I will answer the general sense of your letter.
He didn't look to the end of the letter first.
He decided to return to the question of the letter.
Quickly he worked his way through the rest of the letter.
As a man of letters is much less well known.
But the line of letters did not read as a word.
The two words are different, even to the number of letters.
She found a number of letters over the next three hours.
I still get a lot of letters about her, too.