Memorial

1. Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
2. A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., -- often accompanied with a petition.
3. A memorandum; a record.
4. Memory; remembrance.
5. Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.
6. Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.
7. A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.