“Young fellows come to me looking for jobs and tellingme 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 inChicago, to his son, Pierrepont, at Harvard University,Cambridge, Mass.
Mr. Pierrepont has just become a member, in good andregular 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 passedunder his father’s eye, and has furnished him with atext for some plain particularities.15
III. From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards inChicago, to his son, Pierrepont, at Harvard University.
Mr. Pierrepont finds Cambridge to his liking, and hassuggested that he take a post-graduate course to fillup 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 aproper finish to his education.45
V. From John Graham, head of the house of Graham & Co., atthe