Lovely bright warm morning. Sat writing with windows open. It was a pleasure being out. Cycled to Haining (all keeping better1), Maryland (Mrs S. influenza2) +c + on to Bowhill, Newarkburn + Cottages. On my way back Baptie3 met me in Forest Road with a message to Bowhill for a kitchen-maid who had cut her thumb. I went home + had lunch then cycled up to find that it had happened before my first visit + was a [illegible]. Came back by Haining West Lodge to the Henhouse + then down to Ashybank + Anderson Road.4 I did nearly 20 miles. Jean5 was up for 3 hours today.
1 Dr Muir had been attending Professor Andrew Seth Pringle Pattison, formerly Seth, Scottish philosopher, and his children Harry Siegfried Seth Pringle Pattison, John Ronald Seth Pringle Pattison and Elinor Elizabeth Seth Pringle Pattison at The Haining, Selkirk.
2 Kate Smith was Inhabitant Occupier at Maryland, Heatherlie, Selkirk, 1903 Valuation Rolls, but is otherwise unidentified.
3 Thomas Baptie (1860-1929), driver and handyman for Dr Muir.
4 Anderson Road, Selkirk, off Bleachfield Road and parallel to Curror Street.
5 Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Muir, later Pike (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s eldest daughter, recovering from pneumonia at this time.
[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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