Wrote Dora1 15 [November]
After a very ruddy sunrise snow began to fall heavily + continued till 3 after which it gradually cleared. At first there was a stiffish E.N.E. wind which must have caused some drifts. Later the wind fell + turned S.W. + it seemed softer. I saw half a dozen cases walking + was not out after 1. Wrote Dora, + strange to say, as happened the last time, a letter from her arrived while I was writing. Helen2 went to Gala + met Winifred Armitage.3 She went + came in a car with Mrs Mack.4
1 Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir (1882-1978), nurse and Dr Muir’s youngest daughter, who was living and working in Egypt at this time.
2 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper.
3 Margaret ‘Winifred’ Armitage (1874-1970), daughter of William Armitage, cotton merchant, and Margaret Petrie Armitage née Mills. Winifred’s sister Dorothy had married Francis ‘Frank’ Muir (1877-1972), electrical engineer and son of the Reverend Gavin Struthers ‘Guy’ Muir, Dr Muir’s brother.
4 Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946), of Elm Park, 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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