Much cooler : more wind + less sunshine but dry. Mrs Dunn’s1 nurse Ogilvie2 laid up + I had to go twice – at 5 to dress the breast. Message to Sund. Hall3 to see girl aet 6.4 Cycled there, The Firs5 + Newark Mill.6 Very lovely on Duchess’s Walk.7 Message to see Mrs Todd the servant at Bridgelands.8 Cycled there, Hospital + Dandswall.9 Baptie10 took Tina11 + Bessie12 in car to call for the Crystals at Melrose.13 Got Ordnance maps of Haslemere, Portsmouth + District14
1 Assume this refers to Agnes Ralph Dunn née Waldie (1858-1926), of 1 Marion Crescent, Selkirk.
2 Nurse Ogilvie is as yet unidentified.
3 Sunderland Hall, Selkirk, home of the Scott Plummer family.
4 The Scott Plummer family did not have a child of the right age in the 1921 Census so this must refer to the child of a visitor.
5 The Firs, Selkirk, home of the Smith family which comprised Patrick Smith (1858-1930), advocate and sheriff-substitute, his wife Alice Smith née Paterson (1863-1943), and, at different times, their children Ralph Colley Smith (1891-1957), Alice Barbara Stewart Smith (1892-1970), Edith Margaret Smith, later Wilson (1896-1976), Herbert Shaw Smith (1897-1917), Constance Harper Smith (1900-1977) and David Anderson Smith (1904-1976).
6 Newarkmill, part of the Bowhill Estate. It is not made clear whom Dr Muir was visiting.
7 The picturesque Duchess’s Drive at Bowhill.
8 Mrs Todd is so far unidentified at Bridgelands, which is on the Lindean side of Selkirk, owned by the Rodger family of Selkirk but occupied by a number of different households.
9 Miss Elizabeth D Ballantyne was proprietor and occupier at Dandswall, Shawpark Road, Selkirk, 1923 Valuation Roll.
10 Thomas Baptie (1860-1929), driver and handyman for Dr Muir.
11 Assume Christina Robertson ‘Tina’ Patrick née Rodger (about 1846-1924), daughter of Peter Rodger (1804-1888), of Selkirk, solicitor and local government official.
12 Assume Elizabeth Maud ‘Bessie’ Patrick (1881-1945), daughter of Christina Robertson ‘Tina’ Patrick née Rodger (about 1846-1924) and David Patrick, solicitor, of Hamilton.
13 The Reverend James Robert Crystal or Chrystal (about 1840-1930), Congregational minister, sometime of Woodlea, High Cross Avenue, Melrose, widower of Margaret Sophia Chrystal née Riddell (about 1840-1913). In common with many others, the late collection of the 1921 Census data saw Mr Chrystal on the move, in his case on holiday at Elie, Fife.
14 Dr Muir was planning his July holiday in Surrey and Hampshire.
[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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