Much clearer day with sharp S.W. wind: river full. Inclined to frost + some hoar frost in shady places. Wire1 to Crook Cottage.2 Messages to D.C.A., Thirladean3 + Murdoch, Sunderland Hall.4 Drove to Heatherly, Thirladean, Dye Works5, Sunderland Hall, Bridgelands + Broomhill. + after to Newhouse + Almshouses.6
1 The electrical telegraph was pretty well developed by 1923 but it is a sign of the relatively slow adoption of private telephones that Dr Muir is still getting ‘wires’ as a local form of communication.
2 Crook Cottage, Overkirkhope, Ettrick.
3 David Carnegie Alexander, ‘Carnegie Alexander’ or ‘D.C.A.’ (1856-1928), solicitor;. He was the son of David Carnegie Alexander (about 1820-1881), solicitor, and Margaret Scott Alexander née Anderson. He had married 1899 at Edinburgh, Jane Florence Turnbull and they lived at Thirladean, Selkirk.
4 Thomas Murdoch, groom and Inhabitant Occupier of a house at Sunderland Hall Stables, Selkirk [1904 Valuation Rolls].
5 Assume Selkirk Dyeworks, on the opposite side of the railway from Tweed Mills, both sitting between Dunsdale Road and Ettrick Water, see Ordnance Survey six inch Selkirkshire Sheet XII.NW, published 1900.
6 Newhouse, Lilliesleaf, grid reference NGR NT522,235, Ordnance Survey six inch Roxburghshire Sheet XIII.SE, published 1899 and, the Editor assumes, the almshouses at Lilliesleaf.
[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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