Although the glass [barometer] was very low there was no rain today. The wind was N. to N.E. Cold. Motored with David1 to Shielshaugh where he did a circumcision on a child of people Anderson.2 Took a plate of Hare soup + cycled to St Boswells to call for Katie Scott + Jim3 the latter having sent me a brace of pheasants + a hare : but they were both [away ?]. I went on over Mertoun Bridge4 [illegible] by Bemersyde, Gattonside + Galafoot. Got letter from Helen at last.5 She talks of coming home next Thursday.
1 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
2 Robert Anderson, was at Shielshaugh, Selkirk, grid reference NGR NT418,265 [1922 Valuation Roll]. It is therefore conceivable that the family was Robert Anderson, aged 38, his wife Bessie Anderson née Scott, 32, and Robert Scott, one year three months, recorded at Elm Row, Selkirk in the 1921 Census. [1922 Valuation Rokk, VR011700009-/376, Selkirk County, Page 376 of 605].
3 The Scotts are so far unidentified.
4 Mertoun Bridge, grid reference NGR NT609,320.
5 Dr Muir had been quite unreasonable about the lack of communication from Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), his third daughter and sometime housekeeper, who was 43 at this time and staying with Muir relations in Surrey. He could of course have picked up the telephone.
[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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