A dry cold day though the pavements were wet in the morning. Keen N.W. wind, moderate. Helen1 went to St Abbs2 with Jack + his father.3 I cycled to Curror Street, Dunsdale, Cannon Street, Philiphaugh Cottages, Ettrickhaugh Road + after getting back to Glebe Terrace in all 5.85 [miles]. Mrs Mack4 called with eggs [and] cream. I was obliged to lunch off porridge as Clark5 had my upper plate repairing + I couldn’t chew with Logan’s6 old one, so the cream came in splendidly.
1 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper.
2 The Roberts family routinely holidayed on the east coast, in Berwickshire or Northumberland.
3 John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), mill owner and Dr Muir’s son-in-law, and his father Sir John Tonkin Roberts (1845-1934).
4 Dr Muir’s friend Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946) of Elm Park, Selkirk.
5 Thomas Raeburn ‘T Raeburn’ Clark (1879-1943), dental surgeon, at 8 The Green, Selkirk, and of Ettrickbridge, 1920 Valuation Roll; married to Isabella Watson, he died, 9 July 1943, aged 63, at 153 Morningside Drive, Edinburgh, usual residence Elburn, Ettrickbridge.
6 Logan must have been Dr Muir’s previous dentist but does not appear to have practised in Selkirk.
[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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