Clear sky again + looking like frost. Glass [barometer] rising. River in flood which could not be due to yesterday’s drizzle. Helen1 went off at 9.45 with Nancy2 + Mrs Mack3 to the meet at Marlefield.4 I walked to Goslaw Green, Hospital, Bridge Street, Muthag Street +c. Went to Mrs Farquharson’s funeral.5 I had one of the cords + so had D.C.A.6, Jas. Mathieson7, John Brown8, Alexr Roberts9 [and] George Colledge.10 I had nothing to do afterwards. Nice letter from Dora.11
1 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper.
2 Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter.
3 Dr Muir’s good friend Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946) of Elm Park, Selkirk.
4 Marlefield, Eckford, Roxburghshire, grid reference NGR NT735,257.
5 Mrs Martha Farquharson née Hector (about 1838-1923), died 10 December 1923 at Howard Place, Edinburgh, widow of the Reverend James Farquharson, sometime minister of Selkirk.
6 David Carnegie Alexander, ‘Carnegie Alexander’ or ‘D.C.A.’ (1856-1928), solicitor, usual residence Thirladean, Selkirk.
7 Assume James Mathison (1835-1937), retired bank agent, living at Heatherlie Cottage, Selkirk, 1921 Census, aged 85. James was born 8 December 1835 at Selkirk and died 8 December 1937 at Heatherlie Cottage, aged 102, death certified by D Charteris Graham M.B., Ch.B.
8 It has not proved possible to identify John Brown.
9 Perhaps Alexander Fowler ‘Sandie’ (1844-1929), J.P., woollen manufacturer.
10 Assume George Ross ‘G R’ Colledge (1862-1934), L.L.C.M., professional musician and organist, conductor of the Selkirk Orchestral Society, 1883-1909, and founder of Selkirk Operatic Society, 1927.
11 Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir (1882-1978), nurse and Dr Muir’s youngest daughter, who was living and working in Egypt at this time.
[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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