In the 1933 Barbados-trip narrative, Neville recounts that on the morning of the 3rd or 4th of December he received a letter from his brother Victor enclosing a $50 draft, inviting him home for a family Christmas none of the nine siblings had shared together before and giving him the means to sail on the last ship out, 6 December.
Date (happened)
between 3 December 1933 and 4 December 1933
unresolved
between 3 December 1933 and 4 December 1933
stated · preferred
Reasoning
Neville directly states the day (3rd or 4th of December) and, in the immediately following passage of the same telling, the year (1933). He is certain of the year and the month, uncertain only between two adjacent days, so this is recorded as a two-day stated bound rather than a single exact day.
c. December 1934
estimated · possible
Reasoning
The letter arrived 'after twelve years' away from Barbados. He left Barbados at age seventeen (hist_event 7418), i.e. between 1922-02-19 and 1923-02-18 given his established birth date 1905-02-19 (hist_event 950). Twelve years later falls between 1934-02-19 and 1935-02-18, a window containing only one Christmas -- December 1934 -- so the letter's receipt is placed circa that month. Confidence held at possible because it chains two decades-later recollections (the age-seventeen departure and the 'twelve years' interval).
Told / reported
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 Superseded here: delta 0: 1969-05-26 at `certain` (run `v1.1/l4/w4`). 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.
9 June 1969
estimated
Reasoning
The letter is recounted within lecture 1459 itself, delivered 1969-06-09 at certain confidence; this is the telling date.
26 May 1969
stated · refuted
Reasoning
The lecture's certain catalog claim (1969-05-26) is used over the lecture's other delivery claim (1971-06-04, possible), which the processing notes flag as possibly belonging to a different talk's chrome header rather than this lecture. || 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.