Neville receives a wartime cable that his mother is dying
Date (happened)
August 1941
conclusion · probable
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
1 claim, no conflict: 1941-08 (passage:538530).
August 1941
stated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 538530 (with context passages 538528-538532, all one continuous telling in lecture nid 1375, delivered 1968-07-22 certain) narrates: the same night Neville launched his first book 'in the month of February in 1941' (538528), he imagined himself at his mother's Barbados home; 'time progressed... the war in Europe was on... and then came the month of August, and I received a cable' that his mother was dying (538530), after which he and his wife sailed. No new year is introduced between the February 1941 statement and the August cable -- both are told as one flowing personal-history anecdote -- so August is read as August of that same stated year, 1941. Day of month is not given anywhere in the text, so left blank. Confidence held at probable, not certain: the only link between the two months is the phrase 'time progressed', which does not itself state a duration, so a multi-year gap cannot be fully excluded from the text alone. A second, independent telling of this same event (passage 533312, in lecture nid 1212, delivered 1965-06-18) corroborates the core anecdote -- cold New York night, imagining Barbados, a cable that his mother was dying, sailing the next day -- but names only 'the War' with no month or year, so it adds no further date precision and is not cited as a source for this claim.
Told / reported
18 June 1965
estimated
Reasoning
Neville retells this event (imagining Barbados, then the cable saying his mother is dying) in passage 533312, part of lecture nid 1212 'Evil: Turning to Other Gods'. The lecture's own delivery date, 1965-06-18, is certain, corroborated independently by legacy catalog #286 and a transcriber-recovered site dateline '6/18/65'; no conflicting or superseded date claim exists on this node. This told claim does not touch the 1941 date used in the dates claim above, so it is additive rather than duplicative. || v1.1 type repair: written as `stated` by run v1.1/l4/actor417/6000-6999-b4, retyped `estimated` — the claim cites node 1212, not a passage, so it is this lane's inference rather than something Neville said in so many words (#2117).
22 July 1968
estimated
Reasoning
Neville retells this event in fuller detail (the February 1941 book launch, the imagining episode, and the August cable) in passage 538530, part of lecture nid 1375 'Faith July 22 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco'. The lecture's own delivery date, 1968-07-22, is certain, corroborated independently by legacy catalog #463 and a media advertisement clip whose weekday sequence confirms the year; no conflicting or superseded date claim exists on this node. This told claim does not touch the 1941 date used in the dates claim above (which is derived purely from the passage's internal February-to-August narrative), so it is additive rather than duplicative. || v1.1 type repair: written as `stated` by run v1.1/l4/actor417/6000-6999-b4, retyped `estimated` — the claim cites node 1375, not a passage, so it is this lane's inference rather than something Neville said in so many words (#2117).