The "voice and ideals" of veteran campaigner Margo MacDonald will continue to be spread during the referendum debate in a movement led by her friends and family.
Ms MacDonald - known throughout Scotland simply as Margo - had been suffering from Parkinson's disease and died on April 4 aged 70.
She most recently served as an independent MSP after leaving the SNP, but remained a strong supporter of independence and was described as "the brightest light in the Scottish political sky" at a memorial service after her death.
Her husband and fellow campaigner Jim Sillars has now launched the Margo Mobile campaign which aims to tour housing estates and working communities across Scotland, as a testimony to Ms MacDonald's political legacy and to make the case for independence "in a way Margo would have relished".
Ms MacDonald is said to have spent her final days talking Nationalist strategy with her husband and with the First Minister, who spent long periods by her bedside.
An online fundraising drive has opened to support a "campaign vehicle" and minibus which will transport a team of activists across the country from the beginning of August until polling day.
Leaflets and other campaign material will feature insight and comments from Ms MacDonald.
Mr Sillars said: "Some of Margo's admirers have already contributed to the project, but I urge all those who supported Margo, were inspired by her and wish to secure her legacy by ensuring a Yes vote, to make a financial contribution to the Margo Mobile.
"The recent Electoral Commission release on referendum finance makes stark reading, 'Better Together' has received over £2.4 million compared with under £1.2 million for Yes Scotland.
"This project will allow ordinary voters to redress the balance, by contributing whatever they can manage."
Ms MacDonald was the ''blonde bombshell'' who scored a shock SNP victory in Govan in 1973 and was an SNP MSP in the first Scottish Parliament in 1999.
Following a dispute with the party she won three landmark election victories as an independent, beloved in the Lothians for her support for many causes, including calls for assisted suicide to be legalised.
Speaking at a celebration of her life in April, her husband Mr Sillars, said: ''She gave me instructions to keep campaigning, and discussed with me her concern for Scotland's people after the referendum result.
''She knew only too well that this nation is divided on the issue of independence.
''It was typical of Margo that she knew she was not going to be here to be concerned about this nation after the referendum to still be concerned in the last weeks of her life.
''At 10.01pm on September 18, whatever the result, she wanted those divisions to end and this nation to seek a unity of purpose."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article