A dry day with a fair amount of sunshine + modest temperature. I saw only one town case + one at Philiphaugh Cottages. Mr Neave, the clergyman at Innerleithen1 with whom Ernest’s children are staying ’Phoned that Alec + May2 would leave at 10 + I started about that time to meet them expecting to get as far as Clovenfords or further but I met them at Yair Bridge, a nice boy + girl at 15 and 13 [years old]. I gave them lunch at 1 + then we walked out via the Loan to Gala Rigg + back via Pot Loch. The view was good + I pointed out all the places of interest to them. Then we came back + I had tea at which to my surprise Boylan3 turned up. Some good financial news having evidently recuperated him. The children left at 6 + I went round with them to Yair Bridge via Rink.4
1 The Reverend David Low Neave (1875-1950), Congregational Church Minister at Innerleithen around this time.
2 Alexander Stewart ‘Alec’ Muir (1908-), born India, and his sister May or Mary Muir (for whom no additional information is as yet available) were the children of Ernest Muir (1880-1974), MD, FRCS, LLD, CIE, CMG, medical missionary and educator, and Dr Muir’s nephew, and Sophie or Sophia Muir née Vartan (1878-1234).
In a Forrest Gump meets John Stewart Muir moment, Ernest and Sophie Muir arrived 21 June 1948 at Tilbury on the M.V. Empire Windrush, Official Number 181561, en route from Trinidad [UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Sophie Muir, London, England, 1948 Jun.].
3 Dr Muir had been attending Shawpark, Selkirk from time to time to see John Dun Boylan (1850-1924), a civil engineer, who had a heart attack on 11 March 1923.
4 The Rink, grid reference NGR NT482,323, and Yair Bridge, NT458,325, both Caddonfoot parish.
[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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