In New York, Neville told Anne, a prostitute living at the Ansonia Hotel, to mentally wear the seventeen-fifty hat she admired in a millinery window; ten days later a friend gave her that very hat, and he explained why God gave her the hat rather than the money.
Date (happened)
between February 1938 and September 1939
unresolved
before 1939
bound · probable
Reasoning
v1.1/l0.5/retype/w1: type stated -> bound. The note quotes 'These were pre-war days' - a past-tense reference to the pre-WWII era, from which the boundary is inferred, rather than the source stating a specific date for the event.
between February 1938 and September 1939
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 001)
Reasoning
'These were pre-war days' (passage 546936) gives the ceiling; Ann is applying his 'put it on' teaching, and Neville's teaching began 2 Feb 1938 (chronology 1279; a companion telling says she came to his meetings, passage 538249).
Told
26 February 1965
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 546936 is Neville telling, in his own voice, of Anne wanting a new hat and later receiving the very hat she imagined -- this is the telling. The owning lecture nid=1856 is dated 1965-02-26 by its most precise, confirmed delivery claim, so the telling inherits that date at the same exact/probable precision.
Sources
Source
- Where Are You Staying? ¶14 (She said to me one day in New York City, “Neville, I would love a new hat!” “Alright, you have a new hat. Put it on. What hat do you want?”)