Very pleasant change: a clear sunny day with sharp N.W. wind : a delightful contrast to yesterday. River very full. Saw a fish jump at the Cauld.1 Cycled to Hospital, Ettrick Mill, Buccleuch Road, Philiphaugh Cottages + Heatherlie + then to Riddell West Lodge2 + Lilliesleaf. Robert Mein3 has bought the house + policies at Ettrick Shaws.4 Returned Agnes Logan’s Life of Aunt Marion5 after making some extracts.
1 Presumably the Cauld and Salmon Leap on the Ettrick Water with Philiphaugh Home Farm to the north and Howden to the south and visible on Ordnance Survey six inch Selkirkshire Sheet XI.SE, published 1900.
2 On 22 June 1923 Dr Muir attended a patient name Campbell at Riddell West Lodge. Campbell remains unidentified but the West Lodge, grid reference NGR NT514,243, is visible on Ordnance Survey Six Inch Roxburghshire Sheet XIII.SE, published 1899.
3 Robert Mein is unidentified, but see also Footnote 3.
4 This appears to be incorrect. The Trustees to the late Thomas Scott Anderson continued to be the Proprietors at Ettrick Shaws, Kirkhope, as late as 1935.
5 The Editor cannot identify the book but assumes that it is privately printed or a manuscript. Dr Muir mentioned that he was reading it in his diary of 2 July 1923. The author must be Agnes McIver Logan (about 1848-1928), daughter of Alexander Stuart Logan and Agnes Logan née Greig, thus Dr Muir’s cousin. Her subject is presumably Marion Stewart McClure née Logan (1822-1916), the younger sister of Dr Muir’s mother.
[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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