All 7 Uses

recollect
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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I really don't recollect the faintest.†
Story 1.3 *

recollect = remember
She had waited there on the porch for a time afterward, not moving at all-in a sort of recollection— as if to reach under and bring out from obliteration her protective words and to try them once again ...so as to change the whole happening.†
Story 1.13

recollection = memory
And Plez, of course, he said, "No'm, Mistis, I don't recollect one soul pass me, whole way from town."†
Story 3.26

recollect = remember
In Nina's head, where the world was still partly leisurely, came a recollected scene: birds on a roof under a cherry tree; they were drunk.†
Story 3.29

recollected = remembered
Eugene recollected that one street back a plaster bull dog, cerise with blue rings around the eyes, which ordinarily sat in the ground floor window of a hotel between the drawn shade and the glass, had this morning been taken away.†
Story 3.31
The lapse must have endured for a solid minute or two, and afterwards he could recollect it.†
Story 3.31

recollect = remember
Virgie had a sudden recollection of recital night at Miss Eckhart's-the moment when she was to be called out.†
Story 3.32

recollection = memory

Definitions:

(1) (recollect)
to remember -- especially experiences from long ago

Synonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):

Relative to its synonyms, recollect brings to mind a leisurely piecing together of distant memories. It may be used in a less formal manner than remember and is almost always less formal than recall.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
(historical usage) a thought or to collect thoughts -- often after an interruption -- often gaining composure, awareness, or a perspective