The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 1, January 7, 2007, Article 10

THE RED BOOK EVOLUTION PARLOR GAME: HENDRIK HUDSON

Dennis Tucker of Whitman Publishing writes: "To get the ball rolling on
your Red Book Evolution Parlor Game, here's a tiny edit I made in the
2006 edition: I changed "Hendrik Hudson" (spelled that way since the
1947 edition) to "Henry Hudson."

To back up his proposed one-word change, Dennis offered the following to
editor Ken Bressett.  He wrote: "I'd like to change the text of the 1935
Hudson half to "Henry Hudson" instead of the current "Hendrik Hudson."
In defense of this, I quote here the September 25, 1909 Scientific American:

"'On the 8th of January, 1609, a contract was made between "the Directors
of the Dutch India Company of the Chamber of Amsterdam" and "Mr. Henry
Hudson, Englishman, assisted by Jodocus Hondius," who was to act as
interpreter. In the Dutch copy of the contract preserved at The Hague,
Hudson's Christian name is three times spelled "Henry," and he signed
the document in the same way; so that in the opinion of the Hudson-Fulton
Celebration Commission, "as he was an Englishman, it is a mistake to
call him 'Hendrik.'"'

[Anyone else care to join in?  I've already confessed to blindly skipping
past the standard text each year and I'm sure most of our readers do the
same.   Who's been paying attention to the details as new editions of
this hobby classic are published?  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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