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Jack and Charmian's Typewriter |
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 Charmian felt honored to have a career as Jack's assistant |
This is the Remington Standard Typewriter No.7 which was used by Charmian to type many of the manuscripts and letters Jack London wrote. Charmian was unable to see words as she typed due to the design of this early Remington typewriter. To view her text, she would have to raise the carriage with the curved handle located at the right front. |
"...The typewriter translated his sprawling longhand into clear type that the 'silent, sullen peoples who run the magazines' could read. 'If typewriters hadn't been invented by the time I began to write," he would chuckle, 'I doubt if the world would ever have heard of Jack London. No one would have had the patience to read more than a page of my longhand!'"
London, Joan. Jack London and His Times (Doubleday, 1939) |
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