He once read a letter written by Max Plowman to his friend Wicksteed, both Blake students, on the death of Wicksteed's son, quoting the Absalom passage; he says he can pick it up any night and still weep over it.
Date (happened)
before 1970
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [547793] belong to telling lecture nids [1884]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1970 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1970 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 9 November 1970
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1970 to before 1970-11-09.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1884 (certain delivery 1970-11-09); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1970`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1970-11-09 on nid 1884 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
Sources
Source
- Have You Found Him? ¶34 (I once read a letter by Max Plan who wrote to a friend of his, both a great student of Blake, learning that his friend Vickstead had lost his son.)