Wet this morning + a shower during the day. Felt a wee bit stiff with the walk + pushing my bike 3 miles over the moor from Dirrington Law to the Lauder road.1 Gave Chlor[oform] at Viewfield2 for an appendicitis + saw a few town cases cycling. Got a returned letter of Dora’s3 to Willie Rodger4 dated May 27th 1921. Wrote Willie + sent him the letter and wrote Dora. Got letter from Helen5 yesterday.
1 Dr Muir had a rather unsatisfactory trip cross-country between Longformacus and the Choicelee – Westruther road, see his diary entry for 3 September 1923.
2 Viewfield, the Muir and Graham medical partnership’s nursing home at the top of Viewfield Park and immediately behind the Victoria Halls.
3 Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir (1882-1978), nurse and Dr Muir’s youngest daughter, was living and working in Egypt in 1923 but at Selkirk in 1921.
4 William Brydone ‘Willie’ Rodger (1880-1959), son of George Rodger (about 1843-1885), solicitor, and Isabella Margaret or Maggie Rodger née Brydone. Born Selkirk, he was later a stockbroker (admitted to the London Stock Exchange, 1904, at which time he lived at Redcliffe Square, Earls Court, Kensington). He was at Sevenoaks, Kent, 1911 Census and at Trey Lodge, Malling, Kent, 1939 England and Wales Register.
5 Helen Muir was evidently still away, presumably at Haslemere in Surrey.
[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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