Hesitating between frost + fresh. Very heavy blasts of rain from W. + in afternoon in sheltered places roads very icy. David [Graham, co-partner] better but didn’t do much. I went to Lilliesleaf for him in his car which, though it is fast, is very cramped + uncomfortable. Hiddleston1 ill : rang up and asked for [after] him.
1 John Murray Hiddleston (1891-1954), medical practitioner

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/22, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1919]