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I beg it of you as a favor, and pray you to give me the names of the parties who told you so malicious a falsehood upon me. Their only object I do assure you was to injure the cause with which you are connected as well as to impair my name and also to cause me trouble. As you know it is a serious inconvenience to me and my customers to lock up my store and loose two days from business in order to answer these false charges so far from home. 

Please give me the authors of these charges immediately in order that I may seek proper legal redress.

Most respectfully
Your obt Servt
H. Clay Orme

direct to Athens, Montgomery County
Alabama