Letters From a Self-Made Merchant to His Son (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Lorimer, George Horace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1334423857 ISBN 13: 9781334423857

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Letters From a Self-Made Merchant to His Son: Being Some of the Letters Written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham and Company, Pork Packers in Chicago, Familiarly Known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to His Son Pierrepont, Facetiously Known to His Intimates as "Piggy"

In issuing this selection of letters from the original book, we we desire to acknowledge our indebtedness to the publishers, Messrs. Small, Maynard and Company, for permission to use a certain number of these letters in this way, and also to the artists, 8. Martin Justice and F. R. Gruger, for the use of some of the illustrations.

To those who enjoy reading these letters we heartily commend the complete work, which c'ontains a number of others equally entertaining and helpful.

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About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Perhaps this book was a big hit when it first appeared in 1902, but it is preachy and unquaintly old-fashioned to the contemporary reader. Lorimer was an editor at the Saturday Evening Post, and this appears to be nothing more than a puffed-up piece from that magazine. The first "letter," written to Pierrepont Graham, a freshman at Harvard, by his pork-packing father in Chicago, contains all sorts of fatherly advice about college life, and what a young man should and should not do. But, as Pierrepont ages and goes to work in Dad's company, the homilies continue with few variations, and the folksy examples (one per chapter) of how not to behave, plus endless metaphors, become boring, and the book's conceit wears thin. There is much advice (indeed, that is all the book contains), but as Graham senior himself notes, it is the same advice that young men always hear. However, there are a few bright spots. Graham's rules for business conversation are useful and still timely: "Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking."
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

These fictional correspondences first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and were collected into a single volume in 1902. With its portraits of small-town life, humor, and wisdom, this title was a huge success at a time when our country was a simpler place. Today, this serves as a sterling piece of Americana.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1334423857
• ISBN 13: 9781334423857
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124