A showery day. Walked about the town + got everybody seen that needed. Met Mrs [illegible]1 who came to lunch + waited till Mrs Tom Anderson2 called to take her to Shaws. Cycled to Hospital + Shawpark. Was busy getting my preparations made for leaving home. It was late at night before I began my actual packing3 and it was [continued as entry for 24 May 1923].
1 Joan Anderson (see footnote 2) was recorded in the 1921 Census and the 1923 Valuation Roll but in neither of those sources is there anyone with a name that remotely corresponds to that of the woman who had lunch at Dr Muir’s and a lift home to Kirkhope.
2 Joan Scott Anderson née Shaw (about 1857-1936), widow of Thomas Scott Anderson (1852-1919) of Shaws, and daughter of Thomas Shaw, Wooriwyrite, Australia and Catherine Shaw née McLaughlin.
3 Dr Muir was off travelling the next day.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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