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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
Essablislsd july. 1890
ny FREEMAE HUNT, EDITOR AND pRoPRn

By rREEMAE HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
NE Number for December, 1850, completed tbs TWEEN
u ty-third semi annual volume The work has been
enlarged since its commencement In July 1882 each
volume now contains more than hundred large
tayo pages few complete sets ofthe Magazine may be
obtained at the publishers Office, 142 Fulton street New
half per volume. f3t1aE4
The following few OF the many commendatory let
ers received by the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmsn t3lsH Seit'5
Letter from the Hon. Henry Clay. sa3 isaI
ASHLAND, Goth July ,1s49.
Dear Sir: wish to express to YOU the grat1cation
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 to those who have contributed to inorms-
ton and amusement we are naturally DESTROYS TO possess
all the knowledge of Them of their appearance, the ea
lures of their countenance and OF the character and hab
its Of their mind, which acquire You have placed
your readers Cat least you have me- If may
not speak for them) under those obligations; and the
number of your valuable work now before me, III some
degree, satisfies the desire to which have alluded
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
Review and have no hesitation In expressing my humble
support tcollects and arrange in good order large
amount Of valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only to the merchant but to the states
man. to the cultiyator of the earth, to the manufacturer
the Mariner in short to all classes Of the business and
Entertaining this opinion glad thatit has been and
hope that it may continue to be, literally patronized
Offering you cordial assurances of my esteem and
freeman Hunt, esq. ~ ',N ii. CLAY.
Ertract of letter from, Hon. Milard Fillmore.
81 have read it (Merchants Magazine) with good
deal Of attention. and have no hesitation in saying that
think of the most valuable periodicals that
ever published. To the merchant it quite inds
pensabe and to the statesman and of general info
nation almost equally desirable. is grand repository
of uscSu facts and informaon which can be found
where well dgested and accessible in these
bers only regret that do not own the whole work."
| Letter from The Hon. Thomas II. Benton
# WASHINGTON CRY, April 20, lS49.
MT Freeman Hqnt-Ssr: owe you many thanks for
azine, and have found it in reality to be nl0gdsie,
that well replenished of all the useful matter which
title would imply, and presented with fnness and
clearness which delights while it instrcs 1t it, in fact,
merchants magazine in the large aeceptation 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 requisiion But
it is not the great merchant only but the of
modest but nevertheless, of most useful operationshe
to abound with the information the pursuit OF his BUSH
and the elevation of the mercantile character
qures Nor is its utility at all confined to merchants but
extends to the legislator and dplomast and to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself, have found it most useful to in my senate
rial abor and have been in the habit for many years Of
| carefully consulting it. sSH @
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS III. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. Wn III. Se,uard.
My Dear Sir Have the goodness to place my name on
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard it as an invaluable work for the 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
| ment.
am, with great respect, your humble servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM il. SEWARD.
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