Note 31 — Chapter I · THE IMAGINATIVE GROUP

One incident recalls Dr. Edward Everett Hale’s entertaining story, My Double and How He Undid Me: A good fairy created for King Giamschid a double, “a phantom, who ate with a very good appetite and who pronounced at intervals, in the tone and voice of the true Giamschid, a few sentences very much to the purpose.” (H. Weber’s Tales of the East, 1812, Vol. III., p. 671.) The similarity is a mere coincidence. Dr. Hale informs me that he was unacquainted with this story when he wrote My Double.