A dry sunny but cold day N.W. – S.W. Cycled to Hospital + Pinegrove. Went to morning service. Heard Ross1 fairly well. Jean2 didn’t go to Church. There were no messages. Mrs Mack3, Major + Mrs Charles4 called after church. Read parts of + finished Agnes Logan’s book.5 Found it most interesting + it recalled incidents of my boyhood which I had forgotten. Jean played some hymns for me at night.
1 The Reverend Andrew Ross (1871-1942), Church of Scotland minister, who moved to Selkirk in 1903 and was there until his retiral with the exception of a period in early 1918 when he was in France with the Scottish Churches Huts.
2 Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Pike née Muir (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s widowed eldest daughter, living in Edinburgh.
3 Dr Muir’s generous friend Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946) of Elm Park, Selkirk.
4 Major and Mrs Charles are so far unidentified.
5 The Editor has been unable to identify Agnes Logan’s book.
[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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