1. Napier Commission, p. 386, Q.5265.
2. James Hunter, The Making of the Crofting Community (Edinburgh, 1976 and new edn 2000), p. 109.
3. Thomas Maclauchlan, ‘The Influences of Emigration on the Social Condition of the Highlands’, Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, 1863.
4. IC, Argyll Estate Papers, Bundle 1764, Correspondence of 9 December 1862.
5. Napier Commission, p. 195.
6. Rev. Eric J. Findlater, Highland Clearances: The Real Cause of Highland Famines (Edinburgh, 1855), p. 9.
7. Napier Commission, pp. 12–13.
8. Ibid., p. 2083, Q.32793.
9. Achnacarry Castle, Cameron of Lochiel Papers, Attic Chest, R.H. Top Drawer, Bundle 15, E. Cameron to Lochiel, 7 November 1846, 26 March 1847; R. Somers Letters from the Highlands (London, 1848), pp. 124–5.
10. PP, Report to the Board of Supervision by Sir John McNeill on the Western Highlands and Islands (1851), xxvi, p. 38.
11. The Duke of Argyll, Crofts and Farms in the Hebrides (Edinburgh, 1883), p. 23.
12. Napier Commission, p. 2217, QQ.35050, 35057.
13. Ibid. p. 343, Q.6169.
14. Scotsman, 15 and 18 October 1884.
15. Cited in I. M. M. Macphail, The Crofters’ War (Stornoway, 1989), p. 120.
16. Cited in Hunter, Making of the Crofting Community, p. 225.
17. Oban Times, 24 January 1885.
18. Cited in Macphail, Crofters’ War, p. 38.
19. Cited in Hunter, Making of the Crofting Community, p. 143.
20. Cited in Macphail, Crofters’ War, p. 11.