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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 · 1902

A 1902 work of fiction told as a series of humorous letters from John Graham, a self-made Chicago pork-packer, to his son Pierrepont, offering blunt advice as the young man moves from Harvard through jobs in the family business.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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