[5] She supported the study and preservation of the Scottish Gaelic language as the acting editor of the Celtic Review from 1904 to 1916.

[1] Gaelic scholars consider her the likely model for John Duncan's illustration, St. Columba on the Hill of Angels (1904).

[6] In 1904, Carmichael attended the annual meeting of the Caledonian Medical Society, in her role as editor of the Celtic Review.

[8] She also contributed articles to the An Deo-Ghreine magazine; her 1905 essay, "Some Things Women Can Do", begins: "It is no exaggeration to say that, if our women would put their hearts into the Gaelic movement, the future of the language would be assured, and there could be no talk of Gaelic being doomed.

Their younger son, James Carmichael Watson, a Celtic scholar who was killed in World War II in 1942.