CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
LETTERS from a SELF-MADE MERCHANT to his SON
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NOTABLE BOOKS OF AMERICAN HUMOR
Small, Maynard and Company, Boston
THE BEACON BIOGRAPHIES OF EMINENT AMERICANS
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Young fellows come to me looking for jobs and telling me what a mean house they have been working for. “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
