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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

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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Contents

  1. Letters from A Self-Made Merchant To His Son
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. LETTERS from a SELF-MADE MERCHANT to his SON
  5. I
  6. II
  7. III
  8. IV
  9. V
  10. VI
  11. VII
  12. VIII
  13. IX
  14. X
  15. XI
  16. XII
  17. XIII
  18. XIV
  19. XV
  20. XVI
  21. XVII
  22. XVIII
  23. XIX
  24. XX
  25. NOTABLE BOOKS OF AMERICAN HUMOR
  26. Small, Maynard & Company, Boston
  27. THE BEACON BIOGRAPHIES OF EMINENT AMERICANS
  28. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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