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."

by George Horace Lorimer

Mr. Pierrepont has shown mild symptoms of an attack of society fever, and his father is administering some simple remedies.223

[XVII.] From John Graham, at the London House of Graham & Co., to his son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago.

Mr. Pierrepont has written his father that he is getting along famously in his new place.243

[XVIII.] From John Graham, at the London House of Graham & Co., to his son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago.

Mr. Pierrepont is worried over rumors that the old man is a bear on lard and that the longs are about to make him climb a tree.259

[XIX.] From John Graham, at the New York house of Graham & Co., to his son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago.

The old man, on the voyage home, has met a girl who interests him and who in turn seems to be interested in Mr. Pierrepont.275

[XX.] From John Graham, at the Boston House of Graham & Co., to his son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago.

Mr. Pierrepont has told the old man “what’s what” and received a limited blessing.301

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