Craigenputtock

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Craigenputtock (usually spelled by the Carlyles as Craigenputtoch)[1] is a farmhouse in Scotland where Thomas Carlyle lived from 1828 to 1834. He wrote several of his early works there, including Sartor Resartus.

The estate's name incorporates the Scots words craig, meaning hill, referring in this case to a whinstone hill, and puttock, or small hawk.[2] Craigenputtock occupies Template:Convert of farmland in the civil parish of Dunscore in Dumfriesshire, within the District Council Region of Dumfries and Galloway. The dwelling on the grounds is a two-storey, four bedroomed Georgian Country House (category B listed). The plot also comprises two cottages, a farmstead, Template:Convert of moorland hill rising to Template:Convert above sea level, and Template:Convert of inbye ground of which Template:Convert is arable, ploughable land and Template:Convert is woodland.

It was the property for generations (circa 1500) of the family Welsh, and eventually that of their heiress, Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866) (descended on the paternal side from Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of John Knox), which the Carlyles made their dwelling-house in 1828, where they remained for seven years (before moving to Carlyle's House in Cheyne Row, London), and where Sartor Resartus was written. The property was bequeathed by Thomas Carlyle to the Edinburgh University on his death in 1881.

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James Paterson on Craigenputtock

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To a Swallow Building under
Our Eaves at Craigenputtock

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Thou too hast travell'd, little fluttering thing—
Hast seen the world, and now thy weary wing
        Thou too must rest.
But much, my little bird, couldst thou but tell,
I 'd give to know why here thou lik'st so well
        To build thy nest.

For thou hast pass'd fair places in thy flight;
A world lay all beneath thee where to light;
        And, strange thy taste,
Of all the varied scenes that met thine eye,
Of all the spots for building 'neath the sky,
        To choose this waste.

Did fortune try thee? was thy little purse
Perchance run low, and thou, afraid of worse,
        Felt here secure?
Ah, no! thou need'st not gold, thou happy one!
Thou know'st it not. Of all God's creatures, man
        Alone is poor.

What was it, then? some mystic turn of thought
Caught under German eaves, and hither brought,
        Marring thine eye
For the world's loveliness, till thou art grown
A sober thing that dost but mope and moan,
        Not knowing why?

Nay, if thy mind be sound, I need not ask,
Since here I see thee working at thy task
        With wing and beak.
A well-laid scheme doth that small head contain,
At which thou work'st, brave bird, with might and main,
        Nor more need'st seek.

In truth, I rather take it thou hast got
By instinct wise much sense about thy lot,
        And hast small care
Whether an Eden or a desert be
Thy home, so thou remainst alive, and free
        To skim the air.

God speed thee, pretty bird; may thy small nest
With little ones all in good time be blest.
        I love thee much;
For well thou managest that life of thine,
While I! Oh, ask not what I do with mine!
        Would I were such!

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The artist James Paterson (one of the "Glasgow Boys") stayed at Craigenputtock in 1882. The following is his account and sketches of his stay:[3]

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