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I HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
Estdblisted, July, 1889,


Esa5lished, July, 1889,
BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
THE Number for December, 1850, completed the TWEEN
i ty-thiru semfannual volume. The work has been
enlarged since its commencement July $780, each
volume contains more than hundred large 90
tayo pages. few complete sets Magazine may be
obtained the publishers office, 142 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
received by the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter from the Hon. Henry Clay.
ASHLAND, Goth July, 1849.
Dear SIR wish to express to you the qualification
derived on receiving 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 Of It, When we feel under OBJ
legations TO those who contributed to informa
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge of them, Of their appearance OF the fe
lures of their counenance and of the character and hab
it's their mind which acquire You have placed
your numerous readers (at least you have me, II may
number of your valuable work 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 my humble
opinion that is eminenty entitled TO the public regard
support 1t collects and in good order large
amount valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful only to the merchant but to the states
man. the culvator of the EARTH to the manufacturer,
the mariner in short to all classes of the business and
Entertaining this opinion am glad that has been and
hope that it may continue to be- literally patronized
Offering you cordial assurances of my esteem and re-
gard, am truly your friend and obedient servant,
Freeman Hunt esq. II. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Muard Fillmore
81 have read it (Merchants Magazne) with good
deal of attention, and have no hesitation in saying that
think it of the most valuable periodicals that was
published. To the merchant it quite indis-
pensabe, and to the statesman and of general nor
nation almost equally desirable 1t is grand repository
of useful facts and information, which can be found
where well dgesed and accessible in these num-
bers. only regret that do not the whole work."
LETTER from fbs Tin, Thomas III T2e,to,
WASHINGTON CRY, April 20, 1849.
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azine and have found it in reality to be magazine and
that well replenished of all the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with fnllness and
clcarness which delights while it instructs is in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptation 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
it is not the great merchant only but the of
modest but nevertheless of most useful operaonsthe
merchant of the interior aso-who will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character
quires Nor is its utility at all confined to merchants but
charged with managing the affairs of the nation. For
myself have found it most useful to me in my senate
abors and have been in the habit for many years Of
carefully consulting it.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedent servant
THOMAS II. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. Tn,. II. ieUa,d
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my name
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.
I am, with great respect, your humble servant,
Freeman Hunt esq., WILLIAM III. SEWARD.
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