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"something else" is expressed in other parts of his letters, when 

 he says that he has something to tell that is "so strange that I 

 should never have mentioned it, even to my friends, had it not 

 been corroborated ... so unreal that I hesitated to speak of it, fear- 

 ing that it was some freak of the imagination." 



