ABSTRACT
I asked Mrs Carlyle if the description of Craigenputtoch in this Memoir was like;-she said, 'Yes, for it was the dreariest place on the face of the earth-I lived there five years, & the only wonder is I didn't go mad; the only women that had been there before me were four farmer's wives,-& of that kind of woman, with all their own rough work about them which they were used to occupy themselves with doing, three went mad and the fourth took to drinking!'
