 Dun & Company, an American mercantile information agency (currently D&B, Dun & Bradstreet).His grandmother died in September and left him a small inheritance, which he spent on setting up his own publishing house, the "Empreza Ibis".The venture was not successful and closed down in 1910, but the name ibis, the sacred bird of Ancient Egypt and inventor of the alphabet in Greek mythology, would remain an important symbolic reference for him.