Not quite so cold N.W. + S.W. [wind]. Some sun in afternoon. Feeling very dyspeptic + fagged. Cycled to Viewfield, Halliday’s Park, Dunsdale, Hospital + Shawpark.1 Boylan improving. Was in town all afternoon + took only a cup of Bovril for lunch. Letter from Norman Grieve2 in which he says he knows A G Bradley.3 Had a meeting of cyclists on Tennis Lawn where a Committee was appointed to draw up rules. They afterwards met in the dining room.4
1 Shawpark, Selkirk, home of John Dun Boylan (1850-1924), civil engineer, an acquaintance of Dr Muir who was present when Boylan had a heart attack on 11 March 1923.
2 Norman William Grieve who appears to have moved to (or taken an interest in property in) the Selkirkshire and Roxburghshire areas around 1911. It is feasible that he is the Norman William Grieve (about 1852-1936), born Hawick, who worked in tropical agriculture and as the director of public companies (rubber and tea companies according to A Hawick Word Book), he left £308,574.
3 Assume Arthur Granville Bradley (1850-1943), colonial agent and author many books including ‘The Romance of Northumberland’, Methuen and Co., London, 1908.
4 The bowling green was adjacent to Dr Muir’s house in Scott’s Place, Selkirk.

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]