Date (happened)
  • c. 1943 (probable)
    "It was in the deep of winter in New York / It was in the midst of war when ships were being sunk right and left", told in Lesson2 Assumptions Harden Into Fact Realneville (nid 1818)
  • between 1939 and 1948 (probable)
Told / reported
c. 1948 (probable)
One deep winter in New York, wanting only warmth, he slept as though under the palm trees of the Indies; distressing news then came, and 48 hours later he sailed from New York in wartime, reaching Barbados just in time to say goodbye to his mother.