Produced by Anne Storer, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: "_Young fellows come to me looking for jobs and telling me what a mean house they have been working for._"] 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." Boston: Small, Maynard & Company: 1903 * * * * * _Copyright, 1901-1902, by_ _THE CURTIS PUBLISHING CO._ _Copyright, 1901-1902, by_ _GEORGE HORACE LORIMER_ _Copyright, 1902, by_ _SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY_ (_Incorporated_) _Entered at Stationers' Hall_ _Published October, 1902_ _Sixtieth Thousand December, 1902_ _Plates by_ _Riggs Printing & Publishing Co._ _Albany, U.S.A._ _Presswork by_ _The University Press,_ _Cambridge, U.S.A._ * * * * * TO CYRUS CURTIS A SELF-MADE MAN * * * * * CONTENTS PAGE I. From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. _Mr. Pierrepont has just become a member, in good and regular standing, of the Freshman class._ 1 II. From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, at Harvard University. _Mr. Pierrepont's expense account has just passed under his father's eye, and has furnished him with a text for some plain particularities._ 15 III. From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, at Harvard University. _Mr. Pierrepont finds Cambridge to his liking, and has suggested that he take a post-graduate course to fill up some gaps which he has found in his education._ 29 IV. From John Graham, head of the house of Graham & Co., at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont Graham, at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York. _Mr. Pierrepont has suggested the grand tour as a proper finish to his education._ 45 V. From John Graham, head of the house of Graham & Co., at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont Graham, at Lake Moosgatchemawamuc, in the Maine woods. _Mr. Pierrepont has written to his father withdrawing his suggestion._ 57