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."
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, published in 1902, was written by George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post, where the letters first appeared. John Graham, head of a Chicago pork-packing house and known on the exchange as Old Gorgon Graham, writes to his son Pierrepont at Harvard, then at the stockyards as a beginner, then on the road as a salesman, and finally as a young man about to marry. The twenty letters are a stream of blunt advice, comic anecdote and homely maxim on work, money, manners and character, in the voice of a man who built his business from a butcher's cart and has no patience with airs. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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