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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
EstablishsGt, July, 1889,

BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
rtHE Number for December 1850, completed Che TWEEN.
IL ythird semiannual volume. The work has been
volume contains than hundred large
tayo pages few complete sets OF the Magazine be
obtained at the publishers ocs l42 Fulton street, New
York. neatly and substantially bound Tor two dollars and
half per vol ume- e. mi atia nzir s
The following few Of the many eommendatOry let
ers received by the editor OF the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen ri rta.sf 49, =
Letter from the Hon, Henry Clay.
ASHLAND, 10th July, 1s49.
Dear Sir wish 70 express % you the qualification
derived 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 oft When feel under OBJ
legations those who have contributed to our niorne-
ton and amusement we are naturally DESTROYS possess
all the knowledge of the Of their appearance OF the iea
lures Of their oountenance, and OF the AND nab
its of their mind which can acquire You have
readers lat least have me, III may
not speak for them) under those obighionsi and te
number Of your valuable work now before me, IN some
degree, satisfies the desire 10 which have alluded
have become quite familiar with the Magazine ana
Review, and have no hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that Is eminently entitled 10 the public regard
support collects arranges good order large
amount OF valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only TO the merchant but to the states
man, the cultivator of the earth TO the manufacturer
to the Mariner short to all classes of the business and
| reading community. fss...s r5lt..
Entertaining this opinion am glad that IL has been and
hope that It may continue to be- literally paronized
Offering you cordial assurances of my esteem and
SaFq HUNT f'na ana 0''sn' CLAY
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Afitard Fillmore.
at have read it (Merchants Magazine) with good
deal of attention. and have hesitation in saying that
think 1t of the valuable periodicals that
ever published To the merchant 1t quite ndis
pensabe and to the statesman and Of general nfor
nation almost equally desirable 1t is grand repository
of useful facts and information, which can be found
where well dgesed and SO accessible as In these num-
bers only regret that do not own the whole work..
| Letter from The Hon. Thomas II. Benton. sg ,,.o
WASHINGTON CRY, April 20, lSI9.
MIR. Freeman Hunt--.Sir. j owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to the Merchants' Mag
azine and have found it in reality to be magazine,
that well replenished of all the useful matter which tho
title would imply, and presented with fullness and
cearness which delights while 1t instructs il b. in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptation of the
term-merchants who go between nations whose large
operations bring many departments of knowledge, and
view of the state of the world into daily requition But
it is not the great merchant only but the of
modest but nevertheless, of most useful operatOnshe
merchant of the interior asowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit his bust
qures Nor is its utility at all confined to nercans but
extends to the legislator and dplomatst and to all who
charged with managing tho affairs OF the nation For
myself have found il most useful to
iabors have been in the habit for many years of
carefully consulting it. aa ill3 .sJ .ss ngtfl a9 --g.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant, aas
| THOMAS H. BENTON.
| Letter from Hon. Vim. H. Secard.
My Dear Sir Have the goodness to place my name ON
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard it Invaluable work for the use Of all who
would understand not merely commercial operations
this extending country, but the fiscal and commercial
questions involved in the administration of the govern
| ment. -~rA isfflssvG
am, with great respect your humble servant, y
| Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM III. SEWARD. Ii
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