Date (happened)
between 1939 and 1945
(possible)
passage 528444 (lecture nid 1036), 'the war was on. There were no airplanes flying to Barbados... they censored every cable', describing his mother's death which closed the illness this event is about
Told / reported
1970
delivery claim d2 on lecture nid 1036, from internal present-year statements in passages 528415 and 528419 naming 1970 and treating Bertrand Russell's death as recent
Neville recalls that his mother spent the last two years of her life wracked with cancer, dying at 61 looking closer to 90 after bearing twelve children. He describes her as having been a woman of great warmth who kept a garden and two gardeners, and tells of experiencing a vision of her at the exact moment of her passing in Barbados, confirmed days later by a letter from his sister Daphne once wartime mail finally reached him in New York.