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he has been writing back that he had a friend here that wrote to him that Mary was having fine times riding around with a young Soldier and plenty of sport with the young Crecks in the stores in Jerseyville but I think it is all a sham of his [over?] fabrication at any rate it is a foul slander by some one Mary is entirely innocent of any such thing and ignorant in regard to the perpetration of the falsehood I have not heard anything from Ohio or indianna for some time With much love from Pa and the Children I subscribe Myself your affectionate Mother Sarah F McLean Edgar McLean Please write Soon