keepsake

noun keepsakes

1. An object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons. And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a blush; to have let loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price: in short, I
2. historical Specifically, a type of literary album popular in the nineteenth-century, containing scraps of poetry and prose, and engravings. He had brought the last “Keepsake,” the gorgeous watered-silk publication which marked modern progress at that time; and he considered himself very fortunate that he could be the first to look over it with her, dwelling on the ladies and gentlemen with shiny copper-plate cheeks and copper-plate smil