Another very hot sultry day : [illegible] heat haze : some thunder. S.E. [wind] Did a a [sic] town list walking in a pair of new tan shoes which were fairly comfortable. Motored to Hassendeanbank to vaccinate a child Renton, formerly Boose Mill.1 Then to put off time I went via Minto + Greenhouse2 + back to Lilliesleaf where at 3 I opened a sale of work in connection with the U. F. Church [illegible]. Got tea there. Wrote the Secretary re tickets for the B.M.A. dinner + Willie Muir.3 Mrs Mack presented me with two pairs Knicker Stockings + a pair of gloves!4 Helen5 had her Brownies for a treasure hunt.
1 On 10 June 1922 Dr Muir had reported the birth of Jeanie Blair Blackie Renton, born 9 June 1922 at Boosmiln Cottage, Lilliesleaf, the daughter of Thomas Borthwick Renton, ploughman, and Jeanie Blair Renton née Blackie, married 1918 at Gordon, Berwickshire. They had evidently flitted in the meantime.
2 The Editor suspects that Dr Muir means Greenhouse, grid reference NGR NT557,236.
3 Dr Muir was evidently planning to attend a British Medical Association dinner and was (separately) communicating with William Edward ‘Willie’ Muir (1872-1948), his nephew, probably in connection with his and Helen’s planned holiday to Surrey.
4 Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946), of Elm Park, Selkirk, Dr Muir’s extremely generous friend.
5 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper.
[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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