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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW
Estabhshsd, July, 1889.
BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR

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BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
nNHE Number for December 1861 completed the TWEEN.
Il ty-thrd semi-annual volume. The work has been
enlarged since its in July 1885, and each
volume now contains than seven hundred large
tayo few complete sets OF the Magazine may be
obtained at the publishers Office l42 Fulton street, New
York. noauy and substantially bound for two dollars and
The following few of the many eommendatory let
received by the editor OF the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen;
Letter from the Hon. Henry Clay
ASHLAND goth July, lS49
Dear Sir: wish TO express to you the gratiheation
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait in the beginning and from reading your address
To your friends the end of IT, When feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed to iniorma
ton amusement, naturally desirous TO possess
the knowledge them OF their appearance OF the Tea
countenance, and Of the character and hab
its of their mind, which can acquire You have placed
your readers lat least you have me, II may
speak for them 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 and
Review, and have hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that It is enently entitled TO the public regard
and support tcoecs arranges in good order large
amount OF valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only 70 the merchant but to the states
to the cultvator OF the EARTH to the manufacturer,
to thu mariner short to all classes OF the business and
reading community
Entertaining this opinion, glad that has been, and
hope TINT ii may continue to be, literally patronized
Offering you cordial assurances Of my esteem and
gard, am truly your friend and Obedient servant,
Freeman Hunt esq. IL. CLAY
| EXTRACT Of a letter from Hon. Mllard Fillmore.
81 have read 1t merchants Magazine) with good
deal Of attention. and have hesitation in saying that
think of the most valuable periodicals that
published To the merchant 1t seems quite ndis-
pensable to the statesman and Of general nfor
nation almost equally desirable 1t is grand repository
of useful facts and information, which 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, 1S4e.
| Mr. Freeman Hunt-Sir: owe many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag.
azine, and have found it in reality to be magazine and
that well repenshed Of all the useful matter which the
ceaness which delights while it nsructs 1t is fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptation of the
term-merchants who go between nations, whose large
operations bring many departments of knowledge, and
it is not the great merchant only, but the of more
modest but nevertheless, of useful operatonsthe
merchant OF the interior alsowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character
quires Nor its utility Mt all confined merchants but
extends the legislator dipomatist who
are charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found it most useful to me in my senate
rial abors and have been In the habit for many years Of
carefully consulting 1t.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedent servant,
/ THOMAS ii. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. Vim. H. Seacd,d
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. af# ft
! am, with great respect, your humble servant
Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM II. SEWARD.
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly at I42
Fulton street, New York, by FREEMAN HUNT and fur
nished to subscribers for Five Dollars year. in advapce
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