Barometer down to 28.1 + with the exception of a clearer [?] interval between 12 + 1 it rained all day. Almost no wind S.E. Dismal weather! I walked to Dunsdale + Mill Street + went to the dentist for another impression. Then I walked to Middlestead returning via Hartwoodburn [?]. Called for Mrs Mitchell, Rosemount.1 After lunch had to go to Mrs Gutridge, Ettrickhaugh Road.2 Took the car. Got up my part for tomorrow’s interview with Sir Thomas Henderson.3 Letter from Dora.4
1 Mrs Mitchell cannot be identified at Rosemount, 30 Hillside Terrace, Selkirk which was, according to the Valuation Rolls, occupied by the Kirkpatrick family throughout the 1920s and 1930s. It is possible that she is a domestic but is not recorded at Rosemount in the 1921 Census.
2 Elizabeth Dalgleish Gutridge née Hogg had married, 28 April 1918 at Selkirk, Edward Gutridge, woollen millworker and in March 1919 they had a son James Edward Gutridge. The family lived at 11 Ettrickhaugh Road, Selkirk.
3 Sir Thomas Henderson (1874-1951), woollen manufacturer and Liberal Party. politician. He was a director of Messrs Innes, Henderson and Co. Ltd., hosiery manufacturers of Hawick, and briefly served as Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire (1922-1923).
4 Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir (1882-1978), nurse and Dr Muir’s youngest daughter, was living and working in Egypt.
[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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