Some hoar frost + fog but cleared up to a fine day. Had I not had to go to Edinburgh I would have had a run. Went in by 10.13 + called on Jean1 with a bunch of Chrysanthemums. Jean looking well but complaining of Neuritis in her right arm. Called at Young’s2 with my throat lamp. Had lunch at Picture House (five courses for 2/- and they went out for a bottle of lager) + spent nearly an hour seeing the picture. Meeting of Branch Council at 4.3 Nothing important. Got out by the 6 train. Helen4 called at Glenmayne but Mrs Murray5 was out. Bar. 29.6 20.5.
1 Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Pike née Muir (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s eldest daughter, widowed but still living in Newington, Edinburgh.
2 Presumably Archibald Young & Son, medical instrument makers, at 57-61 Forrest Road, Edinburgh.
3 This was one of the British Medical Association’s many committees and sub-committees.
4 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper.
5 Thomasina Maude Murray née Shearer (1867-1943) lived with her husband at Glenmayne, above the A7 and overlooking the River Tweed, for more detail see Dr Muir’s diary entry for 30 October 1923.
[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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