Definition of recollection:
(n) :
the act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance; the power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection
"from such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection."