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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND O0AzAfRR0lAL. REVIEW. 80
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BY FREEMAN HUNT, .xpfroH AND PRoPRIEToR

fftf a XII Asta6lished July, 1883, tfsrE
/ By FREEMAN HUNT, AxDzToK AND PRoPRMToR.
NS%Dss sSs Dssspsss 1850 completed u. TWEEN
enlarged since its commencement July 1885, and each
volume now contains m9Fs than hundred large 90
obtained at the publishers oce l42 Fulton street New
York. neatly and substantially bead fot two dollars ana
half per volume.
The following are few Of the many commendaory let
received by the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
t sE Litter from The Hon. Henry Clay.
ASHLAND, 10th July, 1910.
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 in the beginning and from reading your address
TO friends at the end Of It, When we feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed TO our iniorma
ton and naturally DESTROYS 20 possess
all the knowledge Of hem OF their appearance OF the fea
Of their and Of the character and hab
your numerous readers lat least You have me- may
not speak for then) under those obligations; and the
number 81 your valuable work now before me, IN some
degree, satisfies the desire to which have alluded
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
opinion that Is emnenty entitled 70 the public regard
and support collects and arranges in good large
highly useful not only to the merchant but the states
to the cuivator of the EARTH to the manuacurer
to the mariner in short to all classes Of the business and
Entertaining this opinion am glad that been and
hope that it may continue to be, literally patronized.
Offering You cordial assurances Of my esteem and
Freeman Hunt, esq. gtaasB II. CLAY.
M Extract Of Letter from Hon. MiHard Fillmore.
81 have read it merchants Magazine) with good
deal Of attention, and have hesitation In saying that
think it Of the most valuable periodicals that
ever published To the merchant it quite indis
pensabe, and to the statesman general nfor
nation almost equally desirable. 1t Ii grand repository
Of useful facts and information which can be found
where 80 well dlgested and accessible in these
bers only regret that do not the whole work"
Letter from the Hon Thomas II. Benton.
WASHINGTON Cry, April 20, l840.
Mr.. Freeman Hunt.-Sw: owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azine 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 q fulness and
cearness which delights while 1t instrucs 1t is in fact
merchants magazine In the large acceptaton Of the
term-merchants who 60 between nations whose large
operations bring many departments of knowledge and
view of the state of the world into daily requstion But
it is not the great merchant only, but the Of more
modest but nevertheless of most useful operations-the
merchant Of the interior alsowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit Of his bus
and the elevation of the mercantile character
quires Nor Is its utility at all confined merchants but
extends to the legislator and dipomatis to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation
myself have found most useful to in my senate
rial labors and have been In the habit for many years Of
Very respectfully, sir your obedient servant,
THOMAS H. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. VIM. H .ss,oasd.
My Dear Sir Have the goodness to place my name on
your list OF subscribers for the Merchants Magazine.
would understand not merely commercial operations in
this extending country, but the fiscal and commercial
questions involved In the administration Of the govern
ment. ~ ' WI AsA II s88 lrs7r s
am, with great respect, your humble servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM H. SEWARD
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly, at l42
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