Heard Great Tit on Monday + Sunday
Frosty still this morning+ a fine day but the wind went round to the W. + a very gentle thaw came on but the roads did not get muddy. Cycled straight to Broadmeadows to see Mrs Lang1, then on to Newark Mill, Firs, Forest Road, Faldonside, Hospital + Dandswall. After dinner had to go down to Millburn Place to see Mrs Campbell (Jeannie Hislop2) but was not out again + did not go to church. Baby3 came up to tea. She is prattling away in most innocent fashion + is very very dear.
1 The Editor assumed that it was Mrs Anna Gertrude Montgomerie Hamilton née Lang (1864-), born Largs, Ayrshire, daughter of Hugh Morris Lang and Margaret Lang née Graham (1821-1914), whom Dr Muir had seen on 9 January 1904, though it is possible that it was Mrs Lang senior that he was seeing.
2 Jane Hislop (1881-) of 11 Millburn Place, Selkirk, had married George Donald Campbell, gardener, of Broadmeadows, Berwickshire on 20 February 1903 at 1 India Buildings, St Giles, Edinburgh.
3 1 Baby was Dr Muir’s first grandchild, Andrina Barbara Roberts, born 1902.
[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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