Since I put a picture of my typewriter up last week, I thought I would put up a picture of my uncle's typewriter.It is a Corona which dates back to 1913, so it is now 104 years old, and after I had it overhauled by George Blackman at Bexhill on Sea, it works a treat, though the letters are now so worn as to be nearly indistinguishable.
My Uncle was a pulp fiction author from the 'Golden Age' and all of his books were published under 'House Pseudonyms' such as Gil Hunt, Berl Cameron and Brad Kent.
We don't know exactly how many books he wrote because there are no records for the publisher and our records are flimsy. The titles we do know, were "Spatial Ray", "Station 7", "Hostile Worlds", "Catalyst" and "The Fatal Law", none of which we have ever managed to acquire.
According to my aunt, he was paid twenty seven pounds and three shillings for each book and each one took roughly a fortnight of evenings to write after he had returned home from his day job in the city. She thinks that over a period of two years, he wrote around thirty books and it is a shame that other than the ones we know about (listed above), we will probably never identify those that were written by him.
