The nicest freshest day of the season with a mild S.W. wind which melted a lot of the snow on the hills. The roads not quite good enough all round for cycling. Drove via Castle Street + Haining to Oakwoodmill, Hartwoodmyres, Bowhill + Broadmeadows. Mrs Lang1 wonderfully well + has been out twice for a drive. Was not out after dinner except for evening service. Attended meeting of Session to consider Thomas Goodfellow’s2 resignation of Sunday School Superintendent which it was resolved not to accept.3
1 Margaret Pattison Lang née Graham (1821-1914), widow of Hugh Morris Lang (1817-1900), banker and landed proprietor, of Largs, Ayrshire and later Broadmeadows, Selkirk. She was a a close friend of Dr Muir.
2 Thomas Goodfellow (1863-), groom, in 1901 Census recorded as a boarder at a house in Selkirk. He may have had itchy feet at this time because, though it is not clear where he was in the 1911 Census, by 1921 he was appears to have been living in Morningside, Edinburgh, a postal telegraphist, married and with three children.
3 It is not clear what the ramifications of this would have been.
[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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