Fine clear morning + a nice day. Glass falling : rained heavily from 7 p.m. Message to Jessie Boyd.1 Cycled to Tower Street, Forest Road, Forest Mill + Faldonside. David2 passed me on his motorcycle on his way to Dees!3 Took Mrs Farquharson4 a bouquet of sweet + everlasting peas5 + roses. Dav. asked me to see Rob Currie, Rockville6 + give him a hypo of Heroin. I put up the town accounts (made out at Mauldsheugh7) for distribution.
1 Jessie Milne Brack Boyd (1867-1961), of Faldonside, plantswoman and gardener, daughter of William Brack Boyd (1831-1918) and Elizabeth ‘Jessie’ Boyd née Wilson, married 1 July 1862 at Morebattle.
2 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
3 Assume Robert Irwin ‘Robber’ Dees (1872-1923), landed proprietor, formerly a marine engineer, son of James William Dees and Eliza Jane Irwin. He controversially inherited a substantial legacy and then moved his family from Newcastle to Faldonside to enjoy its new wealth.
4 Mrs Farquharson is so far unidentified.
5 Lathyrus odoratus and Lathyrus latifolius, the sweet pea and the everlasting pea.
6 Robert Currie, junior (about 1847-1923), woollen hosiery manufacturer, the fourth of five generations at Selkirk with the given name Robert. Son of Robert Currie, hosiery manufacturer, and Mary Little; he married Mary Murray at Selkirk 18 December 1868 and lived at Rockville, Hillside Terrace, Selkirk.
7 Mauldsheugh was Dr Graham’s home. It appears that Dr Muir has had another of his routines taken off him.
[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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