Neville describes receiving the friend's letters - one typed and signed in script, with a note in Beth's own bold pencil script at the foot which he could not interpret from the platform, and a later letter confirming that she really did take them out and show them the new car on Friday night.
Date (happened)
two days after I told the story here
unresolved
two days after I told the story here
relative · probable
before 1965
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [526655] belong to telling lecture nids [53]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1965 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1965 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 23 April 1965
bound · probable
Why
Exact receipt day not recoverable: text gives 'two days after I told the story... Tuesday night' but the earlier Tuesday session's own date is not in this packet.
Reasoning
Passage 526655 narrates the letter and Beth's pencil-note as already received, read, and pondered by the time Neville tells the audience about it ('I did not interpret correctly... I was waiting for confirmation'), so the receipt happened before or on the day of this telling. The telling is dated 1965-04-23 with strong, multiply-corroborated evidence (chrome dateline plus two catalogue rows), so the happening is bound to before 1965-04-23. This refines the existing 'before 1965' (year-only, possible) bound to day precision; confidence held to probable because the derivation, while direct, is still an inference about sequencing rather than a stated receipt date.
Told
23 April 1965
stated · probable
Sources
Source
- In Praise of Wisdom ¶60 (He wrote me a letter, which I received two days after I told the story here. I told it Tuesday night.)