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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
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BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
,HE Number for December, 1850, completed tho twer-
i ty-third semiannual volume The work has been
enlarged since its in July 1882 and each
volume contains than seven hundred large
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. erYs.. Isl NJ
The following few of the many commendatory let
ters received by the editor of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen: .,, +
Letter from Ho Hon. Henry Czdy.
e L .& ASHLAND, Goth July, 1S49.
Dear SIR wish TO express to you the qualification
derived receiving the July number of the Merchants
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait the beginning, and from reading your address
to your friends at the end Of IT, When feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed to nfoma
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge of tem Of their appearance, of the
lures of their counenanc and of the character and hab
its of their mind, which acquire You have placed
your numerous readers Cat least you have me- IL may
not speak for tbcIn) under those obligatons; and the
number Of your valuable work now before me, in some
degree, satisfies the desire TO which have alluded.
i have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
Review and have hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that is eninenty entitled to tho public regard
and support 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
TO the mariner In short to all classes Of the business and
reading community. ,U44t as#
hope that it may continue TO be- literally patronzcd
Offering you cordial Of my esteem and re-
gard, am truly your friend ana oDcient servant
= Freeman Hunt, esq II, CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. la1lqrd Fillmore.
az have read It (derchants' Magazine) with good
deal of attention, and have hesitation In saying that
think 1t Of the most valuable periodicals that was
published. To the merchant 1t seems quite inds
pensabe and to the statesman and of general nor
nation almost equally desirable Its grand repository
of useful facts and information, which be found
where well digesed and accessible In these
bers only regret that do not own the whole work.
Letter from, Me Hon. Thomas IT, Benton.
bto WASHINGTON Cry April 20, 1S49.
Mr.. freeman Uunt.-,Gr: / owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had TO read the Merchants Mag
azinc, and have found 1t in reality to be magazine, and
that well repenished, of all the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with fullness and
cearness which delights while IL nsructs It is in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptaton 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 requon. But
II is not the great merchant only but the of
modest but nevertheless of most useful operationshe
merchant of the interior asowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit OF his bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character
quiros Nor Is its utility at all confined TO merchants but
extends to the legislator and dipomatist and 10 all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found IL most useful to In my senate
rial labors and have been In the habit for many years of
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
1H tM l# lLcia THOMAS II. BENTON
Letter from Hon. Nm. H. ,Sc,gagd.
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my name on
your list Of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine.
regard 1t ~ an Invaluable work for tho of all who
would understand not merely commercial operations in
this extending country, but the fiscal and commercial
questions involved in the administration Of the govern
mont
am, with great respect, your humble servant,
Freeman Hunt eAli WILLIAM III, SEWARD.
Tho Merchants Magazine is published monthly, at 142
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