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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE

ny FRREMAN HTJEP. EpfToR AND PROpRIETo

EStI0lSaeus sluy 1909,
BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
EHE Number for Deeernber 1850 completed the
L ty-third semiannua volume. The work has been
enlarged since its In July 1889 and each
volume now contains more than hundred large &C.
pages. few complete sets Of the Magazine ta
obtained at the publishers Office la FULTON street. New
York, neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
a half per volume.
. The following are few Of the many commendatory let
tiers received by the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Litter from the HIM. Henry clay.
ASHLAND, Doth july 1S49.
Dear Sir: l wish 10 express TO you the qualification
derived receiving the July number of the Merchants
Magazine and Commercial lieyiew, h0m viewing your
portrait in the beginning, and from reading your address
your friends the end Of It, When we feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed TO our niorma-
ton and amusement naturally desirous 10 possess
all the knowledge OF them OF their appearance Of The ie
lures of their and OF the character and hab
It's OF their mind which we can acquire You nave placed
your numerous readers (Gt least you have me,f may
not speak for them uner those obligations; and the
number OF your valuable work before me, IN some
degree, satisfies the desire to which have alluded.
have become quite familiar with the Magazine snd
Review" ana have no hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that IL enenty entitled to the public regard
and support 1t collects arrangea in good order large
amount OF valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only TO the merchant but to the states
to the cultvator Of the earth the manufacturer,
to the Mariner in Short to all classes of the business and
reading community.
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 re-
Freeman Hunt esq II. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Ntioyd Fillmore.
81 have read it (Nerchants' Magazine) with good
deal of attention. and have hesitation in saying that
think it of the most valuable periodicals that
published. To the merchant it seems quite indis
pensabe, and to the statesman and man Of general nfor
nation almost equally desirable 1t is grand repository
of useful facts and information, which be found
where well dgested and so accessible in these
bers- only regret that do not own the whole work"
LITTER from the Hon. Thomas II. Benton. r
WASHINGTON Cry April 20, 1919.
Mr. Freeman Hunt-.Sfr: owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found ii in reality to be dydkine and
that well replenished, of all the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with fullness and
clenrness which delights while it insrcts. IT. in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptaton of the
term-merchants who go between nations, whose largo
operations bring many departments of knowledge, and
view of the state OF the world into daily requson But
il not the great merchant only but the one OF
modest but nevertheless of useful operations-the
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
qures. Nor is its utility all to merchants
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found it most useful to me in my senate
rial aors and have been in the habit for many years Of
carefully consulting it. Nh
| Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
I THOMAS II. BENTON.
l. Letter fran Hon. Nm. IL. Seaodyd ,-.