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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."Lorimer, George Horace

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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."

Name: 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."
Author: Lorimer, George Horace

Lorimer, George Horace

Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction; Didactic fiction; Epistolary fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Men -- Conduct of life -- Fiction; Merchants -- Fiction; Social ethics -- Fiction

VI. From John Graham, en route to Texas, to Pierrepont
 Graham, care of Graham & Co., Union Stock Yards, Chicago.
     _Mr. Pierrepont has, entirely without intention,
     caused a little confusion in the mails, and it has
     come to his father's notice in the course of
     business._                                                 69

 VII. From John Graham, at the Omaha Branch of Graham & Co.,
 to Pierrepont Graham, at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago.
     _Mr. Pierrepont hasn't found the methods of the worthy
     Milligan altogether to his liking, and he has
     commented rather freely on them._                          81

 VIII. From John Graham, at Hot Springs, Arkansas, to his
 son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago.
     _Mr. Pierrepont has just been promoted from the
     mailing to the billing desk and, in consequence, his
     father is feeling rather "mellow" toward him._             93

 IX. From John Graham, at Hot Springs, Arkansas, to his son,
 Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago.
     _Mr. Pierrepont has been investing more heavily in
     roses than his father thinks his means warrant, and he
     tries to turn his thoughts to staple groceries._          113

 X. From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago,
 to his son, Pierrepont, at the Commercial House,
 Jeffersonville, Indiana.
     _Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted to the position of
     traveling salesman for the house, and has started out
     on the road._                                             127

 XI. From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago,
 to his son, Pierrepont, at The Planters' Palace Hotel, at
 Big Gap, Kentucky.
     _Mr. Pierrepont's orders are small and his expenses
     are large, so his father feels pessimistic over his
     prospects._                                               141

 XII. From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in
 Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, at Little Delmonico's,
 Prairie Centre, Indiana.
     _Mr. Pierrepont has annoyed his father by accepting
     his criticisms in a spirit of gentle, but most
     reprehensible, resignation._                              157

 XIII. From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in
 Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, care of The Hoosier
 Grocery Co., Indianapolis, Indiana.
     _Mr. Pierrepont's orders have been looking up, so the
     old man gives him a pat on the back--but not too hard
     a one._                                                   177

 XIV. From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago,
 to his son, Pierrepont, at The Travelers' Rest, New Albany,
 Indiana.
     _Mr. Pierrepont has taken a little flyer in short ribs
     on 'Change, and has accidentally come into the line of
     his father's vision._                                     191

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."

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