This graven plate deposited in the base of a votive building on the fifteenth day of August in the year of Christ 1840 ... may then testify to a distant posterity that his countrymen began on that day to raise an effigy and architectural monument to the memory of Sir Walter Scott Bart.
Freemasons.Grand Lodge of Scotland.
[Edinburgh : The Grand Lodge,
1840]
Engraved sheet commemorating the placing, with masonic honours, of a graven plate in the foundation stone of the Scott Monument, Edinburgh, 15 August 1840.
Scott Monument (Edinburgh, Scotland)