I got to St Pancras in plenty time to secure a corner seat in a 1st Class compartment but there was no crowd + I had only one fellow passenger as far as Kettering + after that was alone. I read + had a light meal hospitably supplied from Haslemere with a bottle of cider of which [illegible] I lost the half by the cork coming out + the cider leaking in my bag. I slept from Leeds to Carlisle + was unaware of the stops at Hellifield + Skipton.1 Got to Galashiels at 6.02 where Baptie2 met me + I got home comfortably. It was been raining + the hills were misty. This was Communion Sunday but I didn’t get to church. David3 gave me a list of people to be seen + I did them walking. There has been an outbreak of measles + D. has been very busy. Went to bed early. Wrote Mary.4 David came in + saw me before he started for Camp.5
1 Hellifield Station, Yorkshire, grid reference NGR SD853,572, and Skipton SD989,518, are both on the climb from Leeds and Bradford towards Settle and eventually Carlisle. Dr Muir would have passed Skipton before Hellifield.
2 Thomas Baptie (1860-1929), driver and handyman for Dr Muir.
3 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
4 Mary Jane Wallace née Muir (1836-1933), Dr Muir’s sister, widow of James Wallace (d.1922), and living at Scotstoune, Haslemere, Surrey.
5 David Graham had gone off on military service previously.
[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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