Latter

• ladder → Finnegan's Wake: "He fell from the ladder and broke his skull". Giambattista Vico fell from a ladder when he was seven years old, fracturing his skull; he remained unconscious for about five hours (see Vico's Autobiography).

• letter → ALP's letter

• latter: the last thing mentioned, i.e. the wall which was in the course of erection; or, if the wall (being in parentheses) is exempted, the heavy head and shaking hod