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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
Evk,.bI;sbad y,J.g 1890

Established July, 1889,
BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
VnE Number for December 1860, completed the twsn-
u ty-third semiannual volume. The work has been
enlarged since its commencement In July 1885, and each
volume contains more than hundred large
obtained the publishers ofce 142 Fulton street. New
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
a half per volume.
The following ars few Of the many oommendatory let
received by the editor OF the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter from the Hon. Henry Clay.
ASHLAND, 10th July, 1S49.
Dear Sir: wish to 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 address
to your friends the end OF it, When feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed to our infoma-
all the knowledge of Them of their appearance the
Of their counenance and OF the character and hab
its Of their mind which acquires You have placed
your numerous readers lat least you have me- II may
not speak for them) under those obgations 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 my humble
opinion that is enenty entitled to the public regard
support collects and in good order large
amount Of valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only to the merchant but to the states
to the Mariner in short to all classes Of the business and
reading community.
hope that it may continue to be- literally patronized
Offering you cordial Of my esteem and re-
Il
Freeman Hunt, esq IL. CLAY.
EXTRACT of a letter from, Hon. Muard FILLMORE
81 have read it (Merchants' Magazne) with a good
deal Of attention. and have hesitation in saying that
think Of the most valuable periodicals that
ever published. To the merchant 1t 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 be found
where well dgested and accessible in these
bers 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 to read the Merchants Mag
aziDe 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 instructs 1t is in fact
merchants magazine in the large accepation 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 requion But
Is not the great merchant only but the Of
modest but nevertheless of most useful operaonsths
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
qures. Nor is its utility at all confined to merchants, but
extends to the legislator dplomatist and to all who
charged with managing the affairs Of the nation For
myself have found 1t most useful to in my senate
abors and have been in the habit for many Of
carefully consulting it.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS H. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. Wn II. S,card.
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my name en-
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.
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