Ann receives the exact hat she imagined wearing

Neville retells his often-told New York story of Ann, a prostitute living at the Ansonia, who imagined wearing a seventeen-fifty hat and was given that very hat by a friend, and his explanation that money would have gone to her rent instead.
Date (happened)
before 1939
unresolved
  1. before 1939 stated · preferred
    Source Imagining Creates ¶17"Now this is before the 2nd World War", told in Imagining Creates (nid 1363)
  2. before 1968 bound · possible
    Source qualifying source passages 538969; telling lecture nids 1392
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [538969] belong to telling lecture nids [1392]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1968 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1968 is the MIN across telling lectures.
  3. before 26 October 1968 bound
    Source lecture nid 1392 chrome dateline delivery claim (v1.1/l2/w1), 'by Neville Goddard 10/26/68'
    Reasoning The telling is certainly dated 1968-10-26 by the lecture's own in-document byline. Ann's hat episode was necessarily already complete by the time it was recounted from the platform, so this tightens the existing year-level bound (before 1968) to a day-level bound (before 1968-10-26). No calendar date is given for the episode itself, only the relative 'ten days later'.
Place
Broadway and 73rd Street, New York City
Persons
Ann
Told
  1. 3 June 1968 stated · doubtful
    Source Imagining CreatesImagining Creates (nid 1363), telling 1363-4, told 1968-06-03
  2. 26 October 1968 stated · probable
    Source Imagination Fulfills Itself (nid 1392), telling 1392-4, told 1968-10-26
  3. 26 October 1968 estimated
    Source lecture nid 1392 chrome dateline delivery claim (v1.1/l2/w1), 'by Neville Goddard 10/26/68', an in-document primary witness distinct from the catalog rows
    Reasoning The existing told claim (1968-10-26, probable) is sourced only to the pre-chrome phase3b pass. The lecture's own byline dateline is a primary witness printed in the transcript itself, not catalogue backfill, and stands on its own as strong dated evidence for the same day; the telling therefore supports certain independent of the catalog agreement.
Sources

Source

  • Imagining Creates ¶17 (This lady, Ann, lived up at the Ansonia at 73rd and Broadway and she’s a member of the oldest profession in the world, a lady of the evening. She came to my meetings when time allowed. So this day in question, I met her at Broadway and 73rd, and she said…)
  • Imagining Creates ¶17 (Then my friend told her the story of my friend Ann, who lived in New York City. Ann was a member of the world’s oldest profession, that of being a lady of the evening. She often came to my meetings, but this day we met on the corner of Broadway and 72nd …)