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HUNTS MERCHANT6' MAGAZINE
AMI, p0NMERCIAL REVIEW.
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81 yRxnMAN HUNT, EDIToR AND PnorHI

BIZ TRKEMAn HUNT, EDITOR AND PaopHIEToR
rHE Number for December, 1850, completed the twen
gthird ssmisunusl volume. The ybrx has, been
volume contains than seven hundred large 90
tavo pages Aiew complete Of the Magazine may DO
York. neatly and substantially bound, dollars ana
y half per volume. ~ ~
The following are few OF the many commendatory let
ters received by the editor OF the Merchants Magazine
from distinguishes statesmen;
Letter from Tie Hon. Henry Clay.
7e.. .i1.taH NJ. Las ASHLAND, Goth July, 1919.
derived ON receiving the July number Of the Merchants
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait in the beginning, and from reading address
TO your friends at the end oft When feel OBJ
legations 10 those who have contributed 60 nfofa-
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS TO possess
all the knowledge them their appearance OF the fea
their countenance and OF tho character and bab
s Of their mind, which acquire You have placed
not speak for them) under those obigations and the
number OF your valuable work now 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 humble
opinion that i is eminently entitled the public regard
amount Of valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only 70 the merchant but the states
the mariner in short all classes Of the business and
reading community. IFs tas
Entertaining this opinion am glad that has BEEN and
hope that It may continue TO be, literally patronizsd
Offering you cordial assurances Of my esteem and
s freeman Hunt ESQ esq. ''N - '''1'' IL a CLAY.
Es,ract Of a letter from Hon. Maard Fillmore.
81 have read 1t Glorchants' Magazine) with good
deal Of attention, and have hesitation saying that
think 1t one OF the most valuable periodicals that was
published. To the merchant it seems quite inds
pensabe and to the statesman and general inor.
nation almost equally desirable 1t is grand repository
OF useful facts and information, which be found
whore well digested accessible in these num-
bers only regret that do not the whole work"
Letter from the Hon. Thomas IT. Benton
:. WAsmNoror CRY, April 20, 1849
Mr.
the opportunities have to read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found it In reality be aogdzie and
that well repenshed of all the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with fullness and
cearness which delights while nsructs 1t 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 reqnson But
it is not the great merchant only, but the one of more
modest but nevertheless of most useful
merchant of the interior asowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
quires Nor is Its utility all confined merchants but
extends to the legislator dpomatist and to all who
charged with managing the affairs Of the nation For
myself Ihave found it most useful to In my senate
carefully consulting 1t.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedent servant,
THOMAS II. BENTON.
M & Latter from. Hon. W,m. H. &aoard
My Dear Sir; Haysthe goodness to place my name on
your list OF subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard 1t as 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 govern
ment.
/ am, with great respect your humble servant
Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly at I42
Fulton street, New York, by FIREMAN HUM, and fur
uished to subscribers for Five Dollars year. advance
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