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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND CoMMERCIAL REyIEW.
Established, July, 1880,

Established, July, 1880,
BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
pHE Number for December 1850, completed the TWEEN
j. ty-third semiannual volume. The work has been
enlarged since its in july 1885, and each
volume now contains than hundred large oc
tavo pages few complete sets of the Magazine may be
obtained at the publishers Office 142 Fulton street, New
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
half per volume.
tiers received by the editor of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter from tie Hon. Henry Clay.
ASHLAND, Goth July, 1s49
derived receiving the July number of the Merchants
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait in the beginning, aud from reading your address
to your friends at the end Of it, When feel under OBJ
legations TO those who have contributed to our informa
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge of Them of their appearance of the fea
of their couenance and of the character and ha
its of their mind which acquire. You have placed
your numerous READERS lat least you have me- If may
not speak for them) under those obigatons and the
number your valuable work before me, in some
degree, satisfies the desire to which have alluded.
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
Review, and have hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that Is cminenty entitled TO the public regard
amount of valuable statistical and other Information,
highly useful not only TO the merchant but TO the states
10 the mariner in Short TO all classes Of the business and
reading community.
Entertaining this opinions am glad that Il has been and
hope that 1t may continue to be, literally patronized
Offering you cordial Of my esteem and re-
gard, am truly your friend and obcdent servant
Freeman Hunt, esq. H. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Mflard Fillmore.
81 have read 1t (Merchants' SIagazine) with good
Of attentions and have hesitation in saying that
think it of the most valuable periodicals that was
published. To the merchant II quite ndis-
pensable and 10 the statesman and man Of general no
nation almost equally desirable. IL Is grand repository
Of useful facts and information which be found
where well dgested and accessible In these num-
bers only regret that do not own the whole work"
Letter from, nc Hon. Thomas IT. Benton
WASHINGTON CRY, April 90, 1s4o.
Mr.. Freeman Hunt--.Nr. owe YOU thanks for
the opportunities have had TO read the Merchants Mag
azinc and have found it In reality TO be margarine and
that well repenished, Of all the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with n fulness and
clcarnesa which delights while II instrucs IL is in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptntion of the
term-merchnnts who go between nations whose large
view Of the state of the world into daily requition But
IL not the great merchant only, but The of
modest but, nevertheless of most useful operaionsthe
merchant of the interior alsowho will lind this magazine
TO abound with the information the pursuit Of his bust
and the elevation Of the mercantile character
qucs Nor its utility at all confined TO merchants but
extends TO the legislator and dplon,atst and to all who
charged with managing the affairs Of the nation For
myself have found II most useful to In my senate
nal abos and have been in the habit for many years of
carefully consulting IT,
THOMAS II. DENTON.
Litter from Hon. WIN. IT. .Ss,odrd
Ny Dear SIR Have the goodness b place my namo on
your list Of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
would understand not merely commercial operations in
this extending country, but the fiscal aud commercial
questions involved in the administration Of the govern
ment.
am with great respect your humble Servant
Freeman Hunt ean. WILLIAM VI. SEWARD
The Merchants Wagd,ins Is published monthly at I42
Fulton street, New York, by FREEMAN HuNr and fur
nshcd 10 subscribers for Five Dollars year. in advance
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