Wet morning : very heavy shower at 8 but fair after till evening. Glass [barometer] very low. Walked to Dunsdale + called for Nancy.1 Did not get to Church as David2 had some minor operations at Viewfield.3 Went in the evening. Spent most of the day reading “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” a novel with the scene set in Argentina + France during before + during the war + which has been filmed + has just been shown in Galashiels.4
1 Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter, living at Wellwood, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk, who had recently been diagnosed with Exophthalmic goitre or Graves Disease.
2 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
3 Viewfield, the Muir and Graham medical partnership’s nursing home at the top of Viewfield Park and immediately behind the Victoria Halls.
4 ‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. First published in 1916, Dr Muir was probably reading Charlotte Brewster Jordan’s 1918 English translation. The book was filmed twice, the first adaptation, in 1921, a Hollywood treatment starring Rudolph Valentino.
[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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