Esperanto in Yorkshire

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Would the readers of the San Francisco Call on February 25, 1906, had access to a gazetteer or similar reference work that would have told them that the grandly named Keighly Municipal Technical Institute was a trade school in Yorkshire? The article does not make that clear, and so California readers of the era might have found this a grander accomplishment than it really was. Still, once again, better than the American Esperanto movement accomplished in Washington, D.C. (despite repeated tries) or in Connecticut.

And Esperanto in Yorkshire of 1906 allows me to return to my Downton Abbey fantasy that, prior to the series, Lady Edith Crawley took up Esperanto, undoubtably subjecting her to merciless teasing from her sister Mary. Would Lord Grantham found himself contemplating instructing Carson that all letters to Lady Edith from foreign addresses, especially those where the envelope was addressed in green ink, be directed to him instead? I doubt that some future plot point will turn on Lady Edith getting Lady Mary out of a jam by summoning her half-forgotten Esperanto. However, I remain convinced that a neglected copy of the Fundamenta Krestomatio de Esperanto is somewhere on a shelf at Downton Abbey.

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