Neville receives and schedules a friend's remarkable letter

He describes getting the friend's letter in the mail two or three weeks ago, being thrilled by it, and wondering which lecture night it would fit before settling on this one.
Date (happened)
two or three weeks ago
unresolved
  1. two or three weeks ago relative
    Source The New Man 2 ¶24"two or three weeks ago", told in The New Man 2 (nid 1968)
    Said as two or three weeks ago
    counted from The New Man 2
  2. before 1966 bound · probable
    Source The New Man 2 ¶24Telling passage 550419; lecture 1968 delivery d1 1966-10-18.
    Reasoning The exact confirmed 1966-10-18 delivery anchors “a few weeks ago,” bounding receipt and scheduling of the letter to 1966.
  3. between 27 September 1966 and 4 October 1966 estimated · probable
    Source The New Man 2 ¶24Passage says the letter arrived 'two or three weeks ago'; carrier node 1968 is dated 1966-10-18 exact/probable.
    Reasoning Passage 550419 explicitly places receipt of the letter two or three weeks before the lecture. Counting back 21 and 14 days from node 1968's 1966-10-18 preferred delivery date gives 1966-09-27 through 1966-10-04. The relative phrase is explicit, but the delivery anchor is probable, so weakest-link confidence is probable. This range is a more precise substantive successor to both the unanchored relative row and the coarse before-1966 bound.
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  • The New Man 2 ¶24 (I got it in the mail two or three weeks ago and I read it and I was thrilled beyond measure. I wondered, how could I use it and what night would this thing fit?)