Another quick change to the best fresh [?] yet. S.W. to S. wind + the snow pretty well of the streets except where it had become ice. The bowling green still white but the grass beginning to show. Helen1 went to town with Mrs Mack.2 I saw some town cases + motored to Dunsdale, Bridge Street + Beechwood where I met Flo. Alexander3 whom I haven’t see for along time. Paid my Income Tax. Dalkeith4 has been returned for Parliament with 11,258 : Henderson 8,046 : Dallas 6,811.
1 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper.
2 Dr Muir’s good friend Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946) of Elm Park, Selkirk.
3 Jane Florence ‘Flo’ Alexander née Turnbull (1877-1962), daughter of James Turnbull, Writer to the Signet, and Jane Scott. Wife of David Carnegie Alexander. Recorded living at Thirladean, Selkirk, 1921 Census.
4 Walter John Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch from 1935 but at this time Earl of Dalkeith. He was to take Sir Thomas Henderson’s parliamentary seat for Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire on 6 December 1923 when Dalkeith (Unionist) received 11,258 votes (43.1%) with Henderson (Liberal) receiving 8,046 votes (30.8%) and George Dallas (Labour) 6,811 (26.1%).
[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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