Neville knows Alice Bentley in New York City

Neville describes his long friendship with Alice Bentley -- known to intimates as 'Ali Ben' -- a very dear elderly friend in New York City who moved in the circle of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky and kept a studio at Carnegie Hall until her death. He recalls that back in 1939, when war broke out in Europe, he spent two weeks staying at her place near the Canadian border, which he offers as background before telling a story she later brought him about a mysterious appearance.
Date (happened)
before 1940
unresolved
  1. before 1940 bound · probable
    Source Falsehood Is Prophetic ¶16Full passage read.
    Reasoning The explicit 1939 New York stay is an external datable anchor.
Persons
Told / reported
  1. 8 January 1965 estimated
    Source Falsehood Is Propheticdelivery claim on lecture nid 1886 'Falsehood Is Prophetic' (catalog #249)
    Reasoning The lecture has 2 delivery claims and both agree on 1965-01-08 at certain confidence: d0 (catalog #249, preferred=1) and d1 (transcriber-sourced from the recovered bare dateline '1/8/65'). No disagreement, no tiebreak required.