Bulletin of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 17, no. 6

June, 1938

Mellor Papers, Box 10, folder 1

[Ohio?: American Ceramic Society]

After Mellor’s death on 24 May 1938, tributes began flowing in. The American Ceramic Society supplied their own tribute in their Bulletin, June 1938. They offered readers an overview of Mellor’s life, and importantly a listing of the 116 papers he wrote. As can be seen, many are of a technical nature, dealing with glazes and chemical processes within the field of ceramics. Anecdotes abounded in the obituaries. One recorded the time when a British Pottery Manufacturers’ Federation official asked Mellor to attend a meeting to solve a technical problem that had arisen. Mellor’s reply was: ‘All right, as soon as I have read ‘Pip, Squeak, and Wilfred’. The writer ended his article: this is ‘why he is called Peter Pan. He positively refuses to grow up.’