Beneath yew trees draped like dark curtains over lichen-covered headstones, Stoke Poges churchyard in Buckinghamshire presents the very scene that moved Thomas Gray to write his immortal "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" in 1750 — and this real-photograph card by Walter Scott of Bradford reproduces four of the poem's most famous lines directly on the image, anchoring literature to landscape with elegant economy. The lych-gate, the crowding graves, the ancient flint church behind — all rendered in Walter Scott's characteristically crisp silver-gelatin real-photograph process, catalogue number LL 592. The reverse is clean and unused, published with the linked-rings "WS" monogram that collectors of Walter Scott cards recognise instantly. A dealer's pencilled "3/-" sits in the upper right. Stoke Poges churchyard remains a literary pilgrimage site; Gray himself is buried there.