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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
ExfaLIixhod Julv ls8o

Establishod, July, 1889,
By FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PRopRIEToK
NHE Number for December, 1850 completed the twen.
enlarged since commencement in July 1885, and each
volume contains than hundred large o.
obtained at the publishers ONCE l42 Fulton street New
neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
q half per volume. f
tiers received by the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter from The Hon. Henry Clay.
ASHLAND, 10th July, 1910.
Dear Sir: wish 10 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
to your friends at the end off When feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed to norma-
ton and amusement, naturally DESTROYS possess
all the knowledge of Them of their appearance the
lures their counenance and of the character and hab
its OF their mind which we can acquire You have placed
your readers lat least you have me, il may
not speak for hem) under those obligatons and the
number Of your valuable work now before me, in
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
opinion that 1t Is eminenty entitled the public regard
and support collects and arranges good order large
amount of valuable statistical and other information,
highly only the merchant but to the states
man. to the cutvaor OF the earth the manufacturer
to the Mariner In short to all classes of the business and
reading community.
hope that 1t may continue to be- literally patronzed
Offering you cordial assurances of my esteem and re-
Freeman Hunt, esq. II. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Mllayd Fillmore.
81 have read 1t (Merchants' HIagazine) with good
deal OF attention. and have hesitation in saying that
think 1t of the most valuable periodicals that was
ever published To the merchant 1t seems quite inds
pensabe and to the statesman and of general
nation almost equally desirable 1t grand repository
Of useful facts and information which be
where well dgested and accessible in these
beers. only regret that do not the whole work"
Letter from the Hon. Thomas II. Benton.
WASHINGTON CRY, April 20, 1S49
Mr. Freeman Hunt-Sir: owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had read the Merchants Mag
azne 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 fullness and
clearness which delights while it nsructs is in fact
merchants magazine in the large acccptaton of the
term--merchants who go between nations, whose large
view Of the state of the world into daily requson But
1t is not the great merchant only but the of more
modest but nevertheless of most useful operatonshe
merchant of the interior asowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character re-
quires. Nor is its utility at all confined to merchants but
are charged with managing the affairs of the nation. For
myself have found it most useful to in my senate
rial labos and have been in the habit many years Of
carefully consulting it.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS H. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. Vim, II. Se0ayd.
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place nv name on
your list OF subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard 1t invaluable work for the use Of all who
would understand not merely commercial operation in
this extending country but the fiscal and commercial
questions involved in the administration of the govern
ment. #,s
sasat hsnhs
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