Fine bright frost day + roads good except where the sun affected them. Cycled in town + over to the Firs. Mrs Smith1 much better + was downstairs yesterday. Allowed her to go for a drive first [illegible]. After lunch drove to Bowden (‘Phone for Nancy Bruce2), Lindean, the Butts, Hospital +c. Went to meeting of Session at night at which the districts were re-arranged. Helen + Dora with Nancy3 walked to Shielshaugh for snowdrops. Miss Wallace4 + baby5 went as far as General’s Bridge.
1 Dr Muir had been attending Alice Smith née Paterson (1863-1943) at The Firs, Selkirk. She was the wife of Patrick ‘Pat’ Smith (1858-1930), advocate and sheriff-substitute.
2 Nancy Bruce is so far unidentified.
3 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir, Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir, three of Dr Muir’s four daughters.
4 Miss Jane Wallace (1874-), nurse to the Roberts children, Dr Muir’s grandchildren [see diary entries for 6 April 1915, 22 October 1916 and 7 April 1918 and 1911 Census]; she was born at Langbarns, Tongland, Kirkcudbrightshire.
5 The 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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