Matthew Bentley dies of malaria in India

In 1925, when Neville was twenty and living for four months in London, he urged his friend Matthew Bentley, who was his own age, to take an interest in the philosophical outlook his own father -- then fifty-eight, a retired mining engineer -- had come to embrace. Bentley refused, saying he wanted to make his fortune first. After Neville returned to New York, Bentley went to India in the service of a tea company; a few months later he contracted malaria there and died, having put off any spiritual interest until money came first.
Date (happened)
c. 1926
unresolved
  1. c. 1926 estimated · possible · preferred
    Source Believe Him In ¶27passage 530018 (lecture nid 1093): 'In 1925... I was then twenty years old... after four months in London, I returned to New York City, and then a few months later Matt went off to India... And three months later, Matt died.'
    Reasoning Chaining the relative intervals from the stated 1925 London conversation (four months in London, then a few more months before Bentley left for India, then three months to his death) lands the death in 1926, not 1925; this is a coarse year-level estimate given the compounding imprecision of 'a few months' and 'three months later'.
Place
Los Angeles
Persons
Neville Goddard
Matthew Bentley
Matthew Bentley's father
Told
  1. 2 April 1963 estimated
    Source Believe Him Inlecture nid 1093 'Believe Him In' delivery date 1963-04-02, corroborated independently by catalog #142 and a chrome dateline recovered from the pre-strip transcript header ('By Neville Goddard (4/2/63)').
    Reasoning Two independent certain sources agree exactly, and no competing claim exists.
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