Books
In the early 1900s Lorimer published several books, including
- 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."
its sequel
- Old Gorgon Graham - More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
and
- The False Gods
The Letters from a Self-Made Merchant was a quite well known book in the early 20th century. In Dorothy Sayers's "Whose Body?" (1923), a copy of the book, in a morocco binding, is mentioned as being at the bedside of a self-made British financier.
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