Sentence:  More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered <WSD>facts</WSD> would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind , intrinsic , because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred