LETTERS from a SELF-MADE MERCHANT Written in Gregtf Shorthand .-/-/ THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES Letters from A Self -Made Merchant To His Son Being some of 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 LOR 1 ME R Written in Gregg Shorthand Revised Edition Published by permission of SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY, BOSTON Greqq c Pu6(isnnq ComSany \&/ t / <^_J .<=y~* New York Chicago Boston San Francisco London Shorthand Plates Written by GEORGIE GREGG H-5S-PP-3 Ch PRINTED IN THE I'NITED STATES (IF AMERICA Preface of the most interesting and helpful books published in recent years is "LETTERS from a SELF-MADE Al ERCH- ANT to his son," by George Horace Larimer. We read these letters with much pleasure when they were appearing in serial form and made use of them as did many other teachers in giving advanced dictation to shorthand students. They were a welcome relief from the monotony of continuous dictation of business papers and correspondence, and at the same time they enforced many valuable lessons in such a way as to impress them vividly upon the ^ minds of the students. The dictation of something in a lighter vein v*u is desirable occasionally, and for this purpose there could be nothing - A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S /. f > / I . 6 -7 . 6 x* c > / . o LETTERS TO HIS SON 15 " 9 J- 9 16 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S C * v - ^ _ ( & * /.~s C^ ( LETTERS TO HIS SON 17 9 / ^ (> <;? C. o ^ 18 A MERCHANT'S LETTERS }- 7 r -* No. 2 FROM John Graham. at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, at Harvard University. Mr. Pierrepont's expense account has just passed under his father s eye, and has furnished him with a text for some plain particularities . "/ have seen hundreds of boys go to Europe who didn't bring back a great deal except a feu' trunks of badly fitting clothes." II / / ^ /. / r- . e- C/? C,-^ 21 22 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S -7 ( ;Y / LETTERS TO HIS SON 23 f x z,. 7 24 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S x! / LETTERS TO HIS SON 25 ,<=> / 26 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S ^ - / o ^ f f LETTERS TO HIS SON - > Q 9- r X ^ r O >' 9 28 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S ^ . C ^ -^ _ J. 7 ' LETTERS TO HIS SON 29 r No. 3 FROM John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, at Harvard University. Mr. Pierrepont finds Cam- bridge to his liking, and has suggested that he take a post-graduate course to fill up some gaps which he has found in his education. "/ put Jim Durham out on the road to introduce a new product." Ill L ? s _-*-f * * *-? 2 33 34 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S f.:'*-S ^^ LETTERS TO HIS SON 35 ^ o 36 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S f. (f s~~~* <. 2 LETTERS TO HIS SON 37 7 ' f . 9 < LETTERS TO HIS SON 39 / A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S 7 / v s ~ -zf ^ <* T fS r LETTERS TO HIS SON 41 2 *r -r / o t / e A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S 7 Z o X LETTERS TO HIS SON 43 ^ r C2_ r- 5> r y > . 44 A MERCHANT'S LETTERS C^^..( X* No. 4 FROM John Graham, head of the house of Graham d? Co., at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont Graham, at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York. Mr. Pierre- pont has suggested the grand tour as a proper finish to his education. "Old Dick Stover was the Korsi hand at procrastinating that I ever saw." IV L *-s~, f ' ^^> m 2 C 7 6, 47 48 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S <__ y r y ? "-$ T" J . s ; s* . -7 64 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S -v y - / . O*-" LETTERS TO HIS SON 65 ^ . -> X /=" 60 70 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S 2-7 C s=* Z ^ r /C, L*-^ LETTERS TO HIS SON 71 egr 72 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S 7 ~ i ,6 LETTERS TO HIS SON 73 74 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S <***" r * r* "7T /"- LETTERS TO HIS SON 75 T <^~^ ^ ^r ^ 76 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S < C Q o X" LETTERS TO HIS SON 77 -7 -f ^ / 1 -~ t <* o No. 11 FROM John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, at The Planters' Palace Hotel, at Big Gap, Ken- tucky. Mr. Pierrepont's orders are small and his expenses are large, so his father feels pessimistic over his prospects. "Josh Jenkinson would eat a little food now and then just to be sociablf, but what he really lived on was tobacco." XI 6 J, -7 81 82 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S LETTERS TO HIS SON 83 ^ / ^ _ r z?" A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S y S / 2. r 7 LETTERS TO HIS SON 85 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S / ( c/ f . fr-t / 2 /,-. -V* LETTERS TO HIS SON 87 7 & <2- / X? ^ _ { C. 7 ^^ 88 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S f C-^ ^-^ -^ 7 9 . /O S f <*z-. -z? 1 ' V c^- ^ - N No. 13 FROM John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, care of The Hoosier Grocery Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. Pierrepont s orders have been looking up, so the old man gives him a pat on the back but not too hard a one. "When John L. Sullivan went through the slock yards, it just simply shut down the plant." XIII -P yr- <- / i-y: -? LETTERS TO HIS SON 107 7 s\ y ^ -7 108 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S J / c^ ~f ( . <<=> s 9 7 c LETTERS TO HIS SON 109 ^ { ( z /" , 110 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S / 7 V. 7 f f s , LETTERS TO HIS SON 111 7-7 ^ -TJ / 7 x^-T" 7 112 A SELF-MADE MERCHANT'S G, f. LETTERS TO HIS SON 113 r o zar 'J- ^ *? 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