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| Not a Spaniard |
I was not the first person to notice that the New York Sun implied that the creator of Esperanto was a Spaniard in their editorial on January 6, 1907. One of their readers did. No full identification was given, just the correspondent’s initials, H.G.P. The Sun’s typesetters also seemed unfamiliar with the use of Dr as an abbreviation for “Doctor.” Where the writer intended Dr Esperanto, the Sun gave us “D’Esperanto.” I’ve left it as they typeset it.
In this, it mangled the name of the work by Henry Phillips, Jr., based on the Unua Libro, which should be properly given as “An Attempt Towards an International Language, by Dr. Esperanto, (Warsaw, Russia).” The author’s name is not part of the title.
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