What are we to make of these five letters and the brief friendship that they reveal? They hint at a few realities of life for a single, young gay man in late Victorian Toronto, but are hardly detailed. Curtis comes across as lonely and somewhat out of his element. Fuller, for his part, was friendly but guarded, and although he was a pioneer in writing American queer literature such as At Saint Judas’s (1896), he could still be cautious about content in correspondence that might be seen by others as questionable, enough so that Fuller would attempt to alter or obscure certain words in the letters. At that time, some visibility was possible but caution was prudent.