Mrs Harper’s engagement to Mackintosh1 all the talk.
Was called up at 1.15 a.m. to see Jas. Scott’s wife, Tait’s Hill.2 It was blowing hard + raining. Nurse called me up to see Jean3 about [?] 3. No signs of snow this morning. Wind still high from N.W. + N. + blasts of rain. Jean had a quiet night but was worse all day. Her temp. rose to 104.5 + the sputum was very red. I asked Meikle4 to see her + he came about 1. She had a very uneasy day + at night was so restless that I gave her 10 grs trional. I was very little out today, saw 2 – 3 cases in forenoon + in afternoon had to go down to Curror Street + in evening to Maryland.5 Jack + Nancy + Baby6 were up in afternoon.
1 Agnes Harper née Watson (1859-1946), widow of Ebenezer Erskine Harper (about 1833-1899), sheriff substitute, was to marry Donald MacAndrew Mackintosh later in 1904 at Morningside, Edinburgh. After Donald Mackintosh’s death in 1917 Agnes became very close to (according to these diaries very likely intimate with) Dr John Stewart Muir, himself widowed with the death of Andrina Barbara Henderson Muir née Rodger in 1902.
2 These two are so far unidentified.
3 Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Muir, later Pike (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s eldest daughter, suffering from pneumonia at this time.
4 Robert William Meikle (1870-1962), L.R.C.P. Edinburgh, living at Gowanbrae, Selkirk around 1904 [sources: Medical Register 1903 and Valuation Rolls, 1904] but moved to England between 1908 and early 1911.
5 Kate Smith was Inhabitant Occupier at Maryland, Heatherlie, Selkirk, 1903 Valuation Rolls. It is possible that she is the same Kate Smith as the Selkirk-born individual recorded as a housemaid, aged 19, at Philiphaugh in the 1901 Census.
6 John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948) and their first child Andrina Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts (1902-1996), Dr Muir’s first granddaughter.
[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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