Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son / Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."

George Horace Lorimer

• Humour
• Book language: English
• 149 pages

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son is an epistolary humor book by George Horace Lorimer. It collects fictional letters from Chicago pork-packer John Graham to his son Pierrepont at Harvard, offering blunt, witty advice on work, money, and character. It is worth listening to for its brisk period voice and playful lessons in business and growing up.

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