Very nice day with just a touch of frost. Motored via Mauldsheugh to Yair, Galashiels (to see Marion Paton1) + Faldonside (Matthewson). Went to afternoon service. Read ‘The Kaiser I Knew’ by Davis his American dentist2. Called to Murdoch at 7 + had to leave Wellwood early to see him again. David [Graham] walked to Thirladean. Carnegie leaves for the South of England tomorrow.
1 Marion Agnes Paton (about 1841-1940), one of a pair of sisters living ‘on their own means’ and whose flit to Galashiels in May 1918 had been funded by a community appeal
2 Davis, Arthur Newton, ‘The Kaiser I knew; my fourteen years with the Kaiser, by Arthur N Davis, dentist to the Kaiser and for fifteen years a resident of Berlin’, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1918; the American edition by Harper had a different title [Source: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006571545 accessed 2018.01.10] and the German edition is ‘Ein günstling des kaisers, aus dem englischen übers. und mit randbemerkungen versehen von S Werner von Kautzsch’ [pseudonym of Dietze, Ernst (1869-), editor and translator], Berlin, Ziemsen, 1919
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/22, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1919]
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