Neville describes visiting Huxley's dark house on King's Road, where the first wife kept every curtain drawn to protect his near-blind eyes, and how after the second marriage the couple moved to a house of glass and light at the top of the Hollywood hills, which then burned.
Date (happened)
before 1962
bound · probable
Reasoning
The first dark King's Road home and later glass-house visits precede the Huxley-house fire dated 1961-11-06, bounding them before 1962.
before 12 May 1961
bound · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 003)
Reasoning
The dark King's Road house and the glass house both precede the fire that destroyed the Hollywood Hills house, 12 May 1961. [The 12 May 1961 fire date rests on outside sources the checker consulted: Calisphere, OAC Huxley papers.]
Told / reported
5 May 1970
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 555298 is Neville describing on the platform his visits to Aldous Huxley's darkened house and later glass house; the lecture carrying this telling (nid 2194) is dated 1970-05-05 by its most precise, non-conflicting delivery claim, so the telling inherits that date at the same probable confidence.
Sources
Source
- The Secret of God ¶21 (When I first went there, I wondered, “Where am I? The whole thing is so dark.” All the lights were dim, little tiny lights.)