Flora MacDonald memorial fund..
Carruthers, Walter,1829-1885.
[Inverness : Courier Office,
1868?]
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Signed at bottom: Walter Carruthers.
A circular asking residents of Inverness to donate to a fund to erect a memorial for Jacobite heroine Flora MacDonald (1722-1790) over her grave at Kilmuir cemetery, Skye. A monument was eventually erected, with an epitaph selected from Samuel Johnson's writings (the pair had met in 1773), however it was destroyed in a gale in 1871 and not replaced until 1880.
Walter Carruthers was the son of Dr Robert Carruthers, the then editor of the Inverness Courier. Walter was a member of the Highland Club who went on to co-found the Inverness Field Club in 1875.
MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790.
Scotland Inverness.