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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
rs AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. ~ 81 ~
a6 +, Estatgisksd, July, 1889, b ,,r.r
By FREEMAN HUNT, EpIToR ANp PRoPpIHTon


BY FREEaAH HUNT, EDIToH AND PRoPRIEroH
THE Number for Decsmber, 1885, oomplsted the TWEEN.
j. ty-thrd semiannuaI volume. The work has been
enlarged since It's commencement in July 1882 each
syo pages few complete sets q the %ssssne msy BE-
obtained at the publishers ONCE l42 Fulton street. New
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars
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The following are few Of the many oommendsory let
tiers received by the editor Of tho Merchants Magazine
from distng ushed statesmen r1M5 ss eaaaei TIT.
Letter from the Hon. Henry Clay
ASHLAND, 10th July, lS49. p q.
Dear Sir: wish to express to you the qualification
derived on receiving the July number Of the Merchant
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait In the beginning and from reading your address
70 friends at the end OF IT, When we iee under ob
legations those who have contributed to our infona
ton and amusement naturally desrous 70 possess
al the knowiedge Of them Of Their OF S e
its OF their mind, which acquire You have placed
ypur numerous readers lat least you have me, may
not speak for them under those Obligations aud the
number of your valuable work before In some
iegree satisfies the desire to which have alluded
E have become quite familiar with the Magazine ana
Review and have hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that It is eminently entitled to public regard
mount of valuable statistical and other information
highly useful not only e the merchant but to the states
the mariner in short to all classes of the business and
reading community hi.tiM
Entertaining this opinion, glad BEEN and
hope that it may continue to be, literally patronized
Offering you cordial assurances of my esteem and re-
freeman Hunt, esq. q ii. CLAY.
EXTRACT Of a letter from Hon. Muayd FILLMORE
az have read it merchants Magazine) with good
ea Of attentions and have hesitation In saying that
rhnk 1t OF the most valuable periodicals that
published. To the merchant it quite inds
ensable and to the statesman and of general ipfor
nation almost equally desirable. It grand repository
useful facts and information which can be found
where well digested and accessible in these
bers. only regret that do not the whole work"
Letter from the Hon. Thomas II. Benton i1r
WAsHINeros CRY, April 20, 184e
Mr. Ereem JoYAy ouu man thanh for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
zne and have found 1t in reality to be magazine and
that well repenished of all the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with fullness and
learness which delights while it instructs II is in fact
term-merchants who go between nations, whose large
perations 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 operationsthe
merchant of the interior alsowho will find this magazine
abound with the information the pursuit Of his bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character
uires Nor is its utility at all confined to merchants but
extends to the legislator and dplomatis and to a who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found most useful to In my senate
rial abors and have been In the habit for Of
carefully consulting it.. af3
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant
THOMAS II. BENTON.
Letter from, Hon. VIM. H. .Ss,ard.
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my name on
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard 1T invaluable work for the Of all who
would understand not merely commercial operations
this extending country but the fiscal and commercial
questions involved in the administration Of the govern
ment aIs55 tsr = vs 1g.w ses 3saH.aN
am, with great respect your humble servant
Freeman Hunt esq.,. I'D WILLIAM II. SEWARD
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