author

W. Percy Merrick

b. 1868

Best remembered for a lively 1922 travel memoir, this blind British writer brought warmth and curiosity to his account of attending an international Esperanto congress in Finland and Sweden.

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About the author

W. Percy Merrick was a British author active in the early 20th century. The clearest confirmed work I found is A Blind Esperantist's Trip to Finland and Sweden, to Attend the Fourteenth International Esperanto Congress, published in 1922, which presents him as a blind traveler and committed Esperanto enthusiast.

That book suggests a writer interested in both practical travel and the wider international culture of the Esperanto movement. Beyond that, reliable biographical details about his life are scarce in the sources I could confirm, so it seems safest to treat him as a little-documented figure whose surviving reputation rests mainly on this unusual memoir.