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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
EstdJfisdad JuIN 1882 s'.e


BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
fHE Number for December, 1850, completed the TWEEN
J. tythird semianpual volume. The work has been
volume contains than seven hundred large
tayo pages few complete of the Magazine may be
obtained at the publishers Office 142 Fulton street. New
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
a half per volume t.H srtlf.fi -5t4. i. ~ Il, ~ .
The following are few of the many commendatory let
received by the editor of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter from the Hon Henry Clay.
ASHLAND, Goth July, 1849.
Dear Sir: wish to express to you the qualification
derived on receiving the July number of the Merchants
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait in the beginning, and from reading your address
to your friends at the end fit When feel under OBJ
legations 10 those who have contributed to inforIna
ton and amusement naturally desirous TO possess
all the knowledge of tbe their appearance OF the fea
their eountenance and of the character and hab
its of their mind, which acquire. You have placed
not speak for them5 under those Obligations; and the
number OF your valuable work now before me- In some
degree, satisfies the desire to which have alluded
have become quite familiar with the Magazine anu
Review, and have hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that II Is einenty entitled to the public regard
ndsupport 1t collects and arranges good order large
amount of valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only TO the merchant but to the states
TO the cutvator of the earth, To the manufacturer,
the Mariner in short to all classes of the business and
reading community. rsI
Entertaining this opinion am glad that has been and
hope that it may continue to be, literally patronzed
Offering you cordial assurances of my esteem and
freeman Hunt, esq. Ii. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from, Hon. Mllurd Fillmore
81 have read it DIerchants' Magazine) with good
deal of attention, and have no hesitation in saying that
think 1t of the most valuable periodicals that was
published. To the merchant it quite ndis-
pensabe and to the statesman and man of general nfor
nation almost equally desirable 1t grand repository
of useful facts and normaton which can be found no
where well digested and accessible in these num-
bers. only regret that do not the whole work"
Letter from, the Hon. Thomas II. Benton
WASHINGTON CRY, April 20, 1910.
Mr.. Freeman Hunt.-Sr: owe you nahy thanks for
the opportunities have had read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found 1t In reality to be magazine and
that well repenshed of all the useful matter which tho
title would imply and presented with fullness and
clearness which delights while it instructs 1t s in
merchants magazine in the large acceptaton Of the
term-nerchans who 60 between nations, whose large
operations bring many departments of knowledge and
view Of the state Of the world into daily requiston But
it is not the great merchant only, but the of
modest but nevertheless of most useful operationsthe
merchant of the interior alsowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character
aures Nor is its utility at all confined merchants but
extends to the legislator and dplomast and to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found it most useful to me in my senato-
rial abors and have been in the habit for many years of
| carefully consulting it.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
.l5...s THOMAS II. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. Wa. IT. Ssoard. ..ts
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my
your list of subscribers the Merchants Magazine
would understand not merely commercial operations
this extending country but the fiscal and commercial
questions involved in the administration of the govern
ment 800.
am, with great respect, your humble servant,
Freeman Hunt esq. WILLIAM ii. SEWARD.
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly, at l42
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