I was surprised + indeed anxious not to say a dry at not hearing from Helen.1 It is about a fortnight since she last wrote. It was forwarded to me at Prestwick. It was wet again this morning with S. wind. Got snap from Ellie Adams2 of Beck3, Bartie4 + self at Hume Castle Sept. 22d. Poured off + on all day. I am just about out of work. Everybody is having Graham.5 I made 4 visits today + on one of them was on Nancy!6 No letter from Helen. Wrote her remonstrating. Got some work done at record cards. Finished [the letter] H.
1 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper, who had been away from Selkirk for a long time since she and Dr Muir travelled south to stay with Muir relations in Surrey on 16 July 1923.
2 Perhaps Mary Oswell F Adams, later Geddes (1890-) of Galashiels who would be of about the right age for a First World War V.A.D.
3 Elizabeth Fyfe Beck (1865-1954), nurse, born Dumfriesshire, died Ceres, Fife. The Southern Reporter, 10 August 1916, describes her as a District Nurse at Selkirk before she was released to take up military nursing. She returned to Selkirk after the war.
4 Jane Hay Bartie (1876-1966), school teacher and sometime member of the Selkirkshire V.A.D. Born Edinburgh and recorded living with her sister Margaret Bartie at Ettrickhaugh House, Selkirk, in the 1921 Census.
5 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
6 Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter, who had recently been diagnosed with Exophthalmic goitre or Graves Disease.
[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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