Is there a source about that you could link to? Not challenging you, just interested to read about it!

I read about this in Odense at either his house or the museum? But it looks like it’s made his Wikipedia page,[1] with a Danish citation.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen#Meetin...

[2] https://www.hcandersen-homepage.dk/?page_id=3683

There's also a solo tabletop RPG that someone made about it: https://x.com/Sotherans/status/1513210507506954250?lang=en