Weather improved : gale has passed + it was fair without much sun except in forenoon. Packed + sent off my large bag by rail + called for Lizzie.1 She wasn’t up + kept me waiting nearly 7 [?] hour + then walked slowly with me to the end of Esplanade. She is a little better but very fragile looking + not like going to London next week to Jean.2 Left about 12 + cycled to Ayr, Culzean + Maybole.3 Stopped in a wood overlooking Culzean + ate a hunk of bannock. My gear wire broke on the outward run + I had to leave the bicycle at a shop in Main Street where is was repaired + sent along. Cathy4 called in the evening.
1 Elizabeth Orr ‘Lizzie’ Guthrie Smith née Rennie (1858–1926), daughter of The Reverend James Rennie (1826-1924), Church of Scotland minister and Catherine Stewart Rennie née Muir, thus Dr Muir’s niece.
2 Jean Frances Guthrie Smith, later Neal (1895-1949), daughter of John Guthrie Smith (1868-1923), W.S. and Lizzie Guthrie Smith (above). Jean had married in 1918 at Barnet, Middlesex, Lawrence Edward Neal (1895-1996), later Managing Director of Daniel Neal & Sons of Portman Square, London, a child-focussed department store.
3 Dr Muir travelled SSE from Monkton to Ayr, NS344,217, along the coast to Culzean, NS235,100, and turned inland to Maybole, NS297,100.
4 This may well refer to Catherine Isabel Guthrie Smith (1888–1962), daughter of John Guthrie Smith (1868-1923), W.S. and Elizabeth Orr ‘Lizzie’ Guthrie Smith née Rennie.
[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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