Dennis Nilsen’s Typewriter Used To Type His Early Memoirs
Dennis Nilsen owned 5 typewriters between 1991 and 2018. Of those, two of them were thrown away in the prison and three were handed out. This one is the first. It was given to him by Central TV following their controversial interview with him in 1991 and he used it to write his early memoirs as well as most of his correspondences between then and the mid nineties when he replaced it with a Lettera 25. This Olympia typewriter is referred to in History of a Drowning Boy (DN’s autobiography) on page 242: “Only one good thing came out of the Central TV interview fiasco and it was that Mike Morley sent me a manual typewriter that he’d found lying around in a cupboard at the office. They no longer used them – being into word processing PCs by then – and I was thankful for this kind gift.” The item is also featured in the colour plates section of the autobiography.
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