Very mild + most delightful day with a lovely sunset. Drove to Hospital, Firs, Broadmeadows (where I had lunch) + Hartwoodmyres. Willie Baptie1 left for London tonight to enter in a situation in the P.O. Savings Bank at West Kensington at £70. I gave him a letter wallet which Jack2 got for me in Edinburgh.
1 William ‘Willie’ Baptie (1884-1918) did indeed go to work for the Post Office. The 1911 Census records him with his wife Jane and son Thomas Wilfred at Niton Street, Fulham, and in 1915 his army record notes that he was on a Short Service Attestation with the London Regiment, Regimental Number 540245. He had married Jane (sometimes Jean) Bell in 1908 and they had two children Thomas Wilfred Baptie (1909-1944), like his father a war casualty, and Margaret Calderwood Baptie (1911-1982).
2 John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), Dr Muir’s son-in-law.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/7, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1904]
Rumbling Clint's Scottish Notes 