Very dark + drizzling this morning + forenoon but faired after. Strongish W. wind : cold. Walked to Chapel Street, Backrow, Bank, Buccleuch Road, Halliday’s Park, Goslaw Green + Curror Street. Attended meeting of Hospital Committee + read annual report. Had P.C. [post card] from Nancy1 from Boot a place in Eskdale2 in the very south of Cumberland. Sent her a reply P.C. Wrote Helen.3 Mrs Mack4 called = grapes, pears + a tongue!
1 Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter.
2 Boot, grid reference NGR NY176,010, is close to the eastern terminus of the Eskdale and Ravenglass Railway and reached from Ambleside and the rest of the Lake District via the Wrynose and Hardknott Passes.
3 Helen Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper, was evidently still away, presumably at Haslemere in Surrey.
4 Dr Muir’s generous friend Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946) of Elm Park, Selkirk.
[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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