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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
ast sEf EsklslbLiRlIed .JilLU. 1889, .t4 A~t
BY FREKMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

BY FREEMAN, HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
NNHE Number for December, $780, completed the TWEEN
Il ty-third semiannual volume. The work has been
enlarged since It's In july 1882 and each
volume now contains than seven hundred large
tayo pages few complete sets OF the Magazine may be
York. neatly and substantially bound, for two dollars and
half per volume. 9.tlkI
The following are few Of the many commendatory let
tiers received by the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen: tfstaeD sa ID fgB2
Letter from the Hon. Henry clay
ASHLAND, Goth July, l849
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 at the end of It, When we feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed TO our informal
ton and amusement naturally desrous to possess
all the knowledge of them, OF their appearance OF the tea
lures of their countenance of the character and hab
its Of their mind which we can acquire You have placed
your numerous readers (at least you have me- may
not speak for them) under those obligations; 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 humble
opinion that is eminenty entitled to the public regard
and support collects and arranges In good order, large
highly useful not only to the merchant but to the states
man. to the cuyator of the earth to the manufacturer
to the mariner in Short to all classes of the business and
Entertaining this opinion glad that has BEEN and
hope that it may continue to be, literally patronised
Offering you cordial of my esteem and
sa freeman Hunt. esq. At'''N '''N '' IL. CLAY,
Extract of a letter from Hon. Malard Fillmore.
~ have read it (N1erchants' Magazine) 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 inds-
pensabe and to the statesman and man Of general infor
nation almost equally desirable. 1t Is grand repository
of useful facts and information which can be found no
where well digested and accessible in these num-
bers only regret that do not the whole work"
Letter from the Hon. Thomas II. Benton.
WASHINGTON CRY, April 20, 1s49.
Mr.. Freeman Hunt-Sr: owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azine, and have found it in reality to be magazine, and
title would imply, and presented with fulness and
cearness which delights while 1t instrucs 1t is in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptation Of the
term-merchants who 60 between nations whose large
operations bring many departments Of knowledge and
view of the state of the world into daily requison But
ii is not the great merchant only but the one OF more
modest but nevertheless of most useful operations
merchant of the interior alsowho win find this magazine
abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
ness 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
rial abors and have been in the habit for many years of
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS H. BENTON.
Letter from Hon, Wn H. Ssward
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my name
your of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine.
regard it Invaluable work for tho 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
Freeman Hunt esq. WILLIAM II. SEWARD.
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly, at 142
Fulton street. New York, by FREEMAN HUNT, and fur
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