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Download or read book Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son (Annotated) written by George Horace Lorimer and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being the Letters composed by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham and Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, naturally referred to on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, wryly referred to his lingerie as 'Piggy.' George Horace Lorimer was an American writer and writer most popular as the supervisor of The Saturday Evening Post. During his publication rule, the Post rose from a course of a few thousand to over 1,000,000. He is credited with advancing or finding an enormous number of American authors like Jack London. Lorimer's Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son is an ageless assortment of Gilded Age truisms from a rich man - a prosperous pork-packer in Chicago to his child, Pierrepont, whom he 'tenderly' calls 'Piggy.' The composing is unobtrusive and splendid.