A few days before the final dinner party, Carter phoned Neville about a soaring inner experience and a coming authority; Neville broke in: 'No, it's all a gift. It's all grace', then offered to tell his own story.
A few days before the final dinner party, Carter phoned Neville about a soaring inner experience and a coming authority; Neville broke in: 'No, it's all a gift. It's all grace', then offered to tell his own story. [Date evidence: 'a few days before our dinner party' — late September 1972, days before Neville's death] [Place: by telephone]
Date (happened)
between 24 September 1972 and 28 September 1972
unresolved
between 24 September 1972 and 28 September 1972
estimated · probable · preferred
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 030)
Reasoning
Carter (node 1601): 'A few days before our dinner party, I called him.' The dinner party is 1972-09-30, Neville's last day (chronology 1549, 1565). 'A few days' read as two to six days.
before 30 September 1972
relative · probable
Why
Bounds on a date derived elsewhere in the same testimony (hist_event:1533), not directly stated.
Reasoning
Carter's testimony places this phone call 'a few days before our dinner party'. The dinner party is dated 1972-09-30 elsewhere in this same testimony (hist_event:1533, itself derived from the corpus's established 1972-10-01 death date). 'A few days before' bounds this call to shortly before that date, but the exact day is not given, so only the upper bound (before 1972-09-30) is asserted rather than inventing a specific day within a vague window.
Verbatim (witness's words)
A few days before our dinner party, I called him to tell him that I was having a very, very high experience. I couldn't account for it, but that my consciousness was going higher and higher and higher, and I said, Neville, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that some kind of authority is going to be given to me. I don't understand it. I certainly didn't earn it. With that, he broke in and said, No, it's all a gift. It's all grace. And I said, Well, that's my story. And he said, Do you want to hear my story? And I said, Yes.
Neville (as quoted): "No, it's all a gift. It's all grace... Do you want to hear my story?"
Told
6 June 1976
stated · preferred
Source
NGR ep.27, Carter lecture 1, 1976-06-06