Worse than ever : a Sou’ Wester with torrents of rain from morning till night. Stayed in the house all day till the gloaming when I went along the street + bought a Scotsman + Bulletine1 Letter from Jean2 whose shop is for sale + she has just been at the expense of painting it.3 Dr Woodside4 a Glasgow minister called. Had an attack of dyspepsia probably from taking too much liquid the last 2 days.5
1 The Bulletine is not recognised.
2 Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Muir, later Pike (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s eldest daughter; married, 15 June 1920, Mayfield U.F. Church, Newington, Edinburgh, Frederick Charles Pike (d.1921), theatrical agent.
3 Jean Muir had been operating a tea shop at 45 Newington Road, Edinburgh, since 1920, the time of her marriage, see Dr Muir’s diary for 4 May 1920, but she continued to be the Proprietor until at least 1940 [see Valuation Rolls].
4 This is presumably the Reverend David Woodside (1859-1924), D.D., St Quivox-born Church of Scotland Minister, of Woodlands Church, Glasgow. He was recorded in ministry at Glasgow in the 1901 and 1911 Census returns but recorded at Kilmaurs, Ayrshire in the 1921 Census, aged 62 (no doubt on holiday, like everyone else in that Census). Married to Elizabeth Mitchell Calderwood, they had a number of children including David Cunninghame Woodside (1890-1916), architecture student at Glasgow School of Art, born Govan, Glasgow, died of wounds received at Cape Helles during the Gallipoli campaign [sources: Statutory BMDs and Census; https://gsaarchives.net/catalogue/index.php/woodside-david-c%5D.
5 More evidence, if any was needed, of Dr Muir’s failure to maintain a good routine.
[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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