The glass had risen a lot yesterday+ this morning was fair though cold but down the mercury tumbled again + rain came between 4 + 5. I walked to the Bank, Heatherlie Park, where I put a starch bandage on the boy Smith’s leg1, Yarrow Terrace, Ashybank Terrace +c. Then to Library + Halliday’s Park + after lunch to Rockville2 + Kirkwynd. I had a call from the youngest of the Maxpoffle Boyds aet 51, a clergyman at St Leonard’s3 + at present staying at Henderland. Got a brace of grouse from Sam Steel.4
1 The boy Smoth is so far unidentified.
2 Dr Muir had been attending Robert Currie, junior (about 1847-1923), woollen hosiery manufacturer, at Rockville, Hillside Terrace, Selkirk.
3 The Reverend Arthur Hamilton Boyd (1869-1955), O.B.E., M.C., T.D. Son of Sir John Boyd of Maxpoffle and Isabella Boyd née Lawson. Dr Muir may have thought that he was at St Leonard’s, the seaside town in Sussex, but after distinguished service in Chaplaincy during the First World War he appears to have settled at Slaugham, Sussex, south of Crawley and near to St Leonard’s Forest.
4 Samuel ‘Sam’ Strang Steel (1882-1961), 1st Baronet, M.P., J.P., T.D., Lord Lieutenant of Selkirk 1948-1958.
[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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