Complete + dismal change of weather. Heavy rain + fog obliterated all the scenes of last night. Left Woodbourne1 after a very pleasant visit. Got the 11.30 to Central + the 1 from Queen Street, reaching Ed. at 2.40. Went to Forsyth’s + got fitted2. Had lunch at the Picture House + went to the pictures but the place was crammed + a crowd standing. Got a seat for a short time + came out by the 4.20. Baptie3 met me. Found Helen4 well + Peter Allen5 with her. Had a lot of people at consultation hour. Met Jean6 at the station as she was going back to town. Baptie motored in + brought her here on Monday.
1 Dr Muir had been visiting Margaret Forsyth Dubs, formerly Smith, née Arthur (1853-1935), at Woodbourne at Wemyss Bay, Inverkip, Renfrewshire – see diary entries for 24 and 25 July 1922.
2 Dr Muir had been measured for a suit on 20 July 1922.
3 Thomas Baptie (1860-1929), driver and handyman for Dr Muir.
4 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s housekeeper and third daughter.
5 Probably Peter Muir Spurgeon Allen (1914-2005), evidently a charge of Dora’s, who was recorded at Thorncroft, Selkirk, aged 7 in the 1921 Census [taken 19 June 1921] and noted by Dr Muir at Selkirk in his diary entry for 26 July 1922. Born 4 June 1914, Chorlton [Lancashire], the son of the Reverend Willoughby Charles Allen, sometime Principal of Egerton Hall (theological college) Manchester, was Archdeacon of Manchester (1909-1916 and Archdeacon of Blackburn (1916-1920), and Catherine Ellen Allen née Green; a head teacher (retired), he died 16 February 2005 at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, usual residence Hope Cottage, Stenton, Dunbar, East Lothian.
6 Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Pike née Muir (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s eldest daughter.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/25, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1922]
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