A terrible day of thick wet fog quite different from yesterday when it lay chiefly in the valleys + one got above it on the heights. Roads muddier too. Drove in forenoon to Hartwoodmyres, Synton + Haining Rigg. Cook1 came in from Eastlands to tell me his aunt was dead2 + shortly after they ‘Phoned from Synton for Mrs Warwick3 who had got some glass in her foot. After lunch I drove to [illegible], Caddonfoot, Bridgelands, Hospital. Got a letter from Hendry4 who was ill at Henderson’s, Forest Road5, demanding £8 from me on the grounds that I had misrepresented his case.
1 The Editor cannot identify this individual at Eastlands, presumably at Galashiels.
2 The Editor cannot identify this individual.
3 Mrs Warwick is so far unidentified.
4 In the 1901 Census Return the Henderson household of Rowan Cottage, Forest Road, Selkirk comprised Margaret Henderson née Marshall, aged 76, and Elizabeth Henderson, 45, and Isabella Henderson, 26, her daughters and Marion Henderson, 16, claimed as a daughter in the 1901 Census Return but as a granddaughter in the 1891 Return. Margaret was the widow of Daniel Henderson (about 1825-1899), blacksmith.
5 The Editor will check the 1903 diary in case it is possible to find this case.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/7, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1904]
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