Sharp hoar frost
Wind S.S.E. Lovely day + warm. Both invalids improving.1 Cycled round town, Hospital, Dunsdale, Forest Road + Haining in forenoon + after lunch to Yarrow Manse, Yarrowfeus, Ladhope + Old Broadmeadows. Had to go a second time to Haining before dinner where in addition to Siegfried, Ronald + Eleanor, the Prof.2 was seized with inflammatory diarrhoea + had a temp. of 104. Jenkins3 gave me a lovely bunch of daffodils for Jean from his own garden.
1 Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Muir, later Pike (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s eldest daughter, suffering from pneumonia at this time, and presumably Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper, suffering with a sprained ankle.
2 Harry Siegfried Seth Pringle Pattison (1894-1977), John Ronald Seth Pringle Pattison (1897-1916), and Elinor Elizabeth Seth Pringle Pattison (1892-1972), some of the children of Professor Andrew Seth Pringle Pattison, formerly Seth, Scottish philosopher, and his wife Eva Pringle Pattison née Stropp. The family lived at The Haining, Selkirk.
3 Jenkins is presumably Hugh Jenkins (about 1860-1934), domestic butler, who lived at Yarrow Road, Old Broadmeadows with his wife Mary Louisa Jenkins née Way (about 1858-1934). They had married in 1895 at Selkirk.
[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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