C. Rae Griffin to J. W. Mellor

30 November, 1936

Mellor Papers, Box 7, folder 3

Unpublished

The Griffin publishing dynasty began life in 1795 in Glasgow as booksellers. They published their first book in 1820 and Charles Griffin and Co. Ltd was established in London in 1852. In 1920 the firm put out Griffin’s Centenary Volume, which states that ‘well over 90 per cent. of the firm’s publications are technical and scientific text-books, manuals and monographs’. Charles Rae Griffin became a director in the company when his father, also Charles, died in 1907. Griffin amicably corresponded with Mellor in the late 1930s regarding the republication of his Treatise on Quantitative Inorganic Analysis. Here Griffin mentions his upcoming trip to South Africa to visit his ‘dear old mother’.