Taught by Abdullah to imagine himself already living in Barbados, Neville grew impatient as October gave way to November with no sign of a way to get there. At the end of November he told Abdullah plainly, 'I am no nearer Barbados than I was when I spoke to you,' only to be told again 'You are in Barbados' -- after which Abdullah turned his back, walked into his bedroom, and slammed the door rather than argue further, a rebuff Neville later understood as a deliberate lesson in faith. Days later, just before the last ship of the season sailed for Barbados on 6 December, a letter and a small money order arrived unbidden from his brother Victor, resolving the very problem he had been forbidden to discuss.
Date (happened)
c. November 1933
unresolved
c. November 1933
relative · probable · preferred
Reasoning
The exchange with Abdullah is placed at 'the end of November', immediately before the 6 December sailing named in the same passage. The same telling's next passage anchors the whole episode to 1933, and this is independently corroborated by the parallel telling in nid 3963 (passage 556354, near-identical wording) whose own delivery claim separately fixes the sailing at 1933-12-06.
c. November 1933
relative · probable
Source
passage 556354 (lecture nid 3963), 'This was now late October. When it came to the end of November, I said to Ed, I said, "Ed, I am no nearer Barbados."'
Reasoning
A second, independent telling of the same exchange, near word-for-word identical to passage 549255 in nid 1928 (with Abdullah's name garbled to 'Ed' in this transcript). This lecture's own delivery claim separately dates the completed sailing to 1933-12-06, which directly follows this 'end of November' conversation in the narrative, corroborating the year.
Told / reported
after 6 December 1933
bound · doubtful
Source
delivery claim on lecture nid 3963 'All Imagination Lecture'
Reasoning
The lecture's single delivery claim is itself only a bound: it must have been delivered after 1933-12-06, since the speaker recounts his Barbados voyage (departing that date) as already completed. The told claim can be no more precise than that bound, so it is carried through unchanged rather than sharpened into a false exact date.
4 June 1971
estimated · possible
Why
Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
Reasoning
Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1928 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1928 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1971-6-4 at `possible`. All claims on the node: 1969-5-26 refuted; 1971-6-4 possible (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1969-05-26 at `certain` (run `v1.1/l4/w3/C2`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
26 May 1969
estimated · refuted
Reasoning
The lecture carries 2 delivery claims that disagree: d0 is 1969-05-26 at certain confidence (catalog #561, preferred=1); d1 is 1971-06-04 at only possible confidence, and its own annotation flags that the recovered chrome header's title ('I Am All Imagination') does not match this node's title, raising the possibility it belongs to a different talk entirely -- a maybe explicitly left open and owned by lane L1.3. Per the confidence tiebreak, and leaving that flagged ambiguity untouched, I take d0. || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1928, 1969-5-26) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1971-6-4. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.