I had very little to do + hardly did did it : saw 2 patients! To my horror I had a twinge of my old Sciatica which was probably due to a twist when I nearly fell off the bicycle near Kelso on the way home yesterday. I called at Wellwood + drank Barbara’s health1 + saw John Roberts.2 Went to evening service. Read “Kidnapped”.
1 It was the 21st Birthday of Dr Muir’s granddaughter Andrina Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts (1902-1996). Later in 1923 she left for what turned out to be a life in New Zealand, departing London on 13 October 1923 on the Orient Line’s Clydebank-built R.M.S. Ormonde en route for New Zealand.
2 Assume Sir John Tonkin Roberts (1845-1934), father of John Roberts junior, Dr Muir’s son-in-law. Born Selkirk, he made his life in New Zealand but was over in Scotland in the summer of 1923.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
Rumbling Clint's Scottish Notes 