'I remember chiefly a fawn-like creature with folded limbs… I would make bowls and big plates for him and hand them over to him when they were ready for slipping and decorating. He also engraved a complete set of beautifully cut Roman capitals using small seal-like chunks of cheese-hard clay. He was a trained typographer and book designer. After these letters had been given a soft biscuit-fire he used them as stamps or seals so that by slow, painstaking work and careful spacing he could impress and inscription around the rim of the dish' (Michael Cardew describing Henry Bergen in A Pioneer Potter: An Autobiography, p. 94).