Wet morning but kept fair after. Wind N.W. – N. + finally N.E. slight. David1 was away shooting at Hume Hall2 + I had next to nothing to do save 8 town cases (including Hospital) walking + spent the afternoon packing my bags for my trip to Dumfries + Rennie!3 The L.M.C.4 called with 2 Findon haddocks5 + said she was going to bring me grapes. Had a call from Walt. Dunlop6 who is living at Whitmuir.7
1 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
2 Humehall, grid reference NGR NT711,412.
3 Dr Muir was planning to see the widow of an old friend at Dumfries en route to Ladyton, Prestwick, Ayrshire to visit the Reverend James Rennie (1826-1924), Dr Muir’s brother in law, the husband later widower of Catherine Stewart Rennie née Muir.
4 L.M.C. must be a variant of M.C. or ‘Magic Cave’ as Dr Muir had previously named Elm Park, Selkirk, the home of Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946).
5 Findon or Finnan haddie is a cold-smoked haddock.
6 Walter Dunlop (1871-1941), East India Merchant, son of Charles Walter Dunlop (1846-1922) and Edith Dunlop née Sugden (1846-1926). Walter had married Clementina Alderman in 1905..
7 Other members of the Dunlop family had moved away from Whitmuirhall after the death of Charles Walter Dunlop the year before, but Walter was to stay there at least into the 1930s.
[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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