Very nice day with strong S.W. to W. wind, rising to half a gale at night but no rain. Cycled to Blackhaugh1 + had a very enjoyable ride. Called for Guy Dryden (Boles’ youngest son) who met with a very serious accident on Tuesday2 + is lying at Clovenfords Inn. Saw one or two in town after dinner. Went to evening service with nurse Taylor3 + Dora4. At 9 James Elliot, Newhouse, came for me to attend his servant5. She had been removed to the Ploughman’s Cottage + was better before I arrived. I drove myself with Macaulay.6 It was a fine moonlight night but very windy.
1 Blackhaugh, in Caddonfoot Parish, grid reference NGR NT42355,38350, must have been on the very edge of Dr Muir’s practice. For more detail see Dr Muir’s diary entry for 15 March 1904.
2 The Drydens are so far unidentified.
3 Nurse Taylor is so far unidentified.
4 Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir (1882-1978), Dr Muir’s youngest daughter.
5 Since January 1904 Dr Muir had been attending the wife of James Elliot (about 1845-), farmer, Tenant Occupier of the farm and house of Newhouse, Lilliesleaf. The servant in this case is unidentified. It is reasonable to assume that Ploughman’s Cottage was her parents’ house but no property is described thus in the Valuation Roll of the time.
6 Macaulay was one of Dr Muir’s horses.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/7, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1904]
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