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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REV
Established, July, 1885,


BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
INHE Number for December 1885, completed the TWEEN
i ty-third semiannual volume. The work has been
enlarged since its commencement in July, 1885, and each
volume now contains than hundred large
tavo pages few complete sets of the Magazine may be
obtained at the publishers Office, 142 Fulton street. New
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
half per volume
The following n few of the many commendatory let
ers received by the editor of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter from The Hon. Henry clay.
ASHLAND, Goth July, 1S49
Dear Sir: wish to express to you the qualification l
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 feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed to our inorma
ton and amusement we naturally DESTROYS TO possess
all the knowledge of Them of their appearance the
lures of their countenance and of the character and ha
its of their mind, which acquire You have placed
your numerous readers Cat least you have me- If may
not speak for them) under those oblgations and the
number of your valuable work before me- in some
degree, satisfies the desire to which have alluded
have become quite familiar with tho Magazine and
Review and have no hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that 1t is emnenty entitled to the public regard
and support collects and aranges in good order large
amount Of valuable statistical and other information
highly useful not only to the merchant to the
man. to the cutvator of the earth to the manufactures
to the Mariner in short to all classes of the business and
reading community.
Entertaining this opinion am glad that has been and
hope that 1t may continue to be, literally patronzed
Offering you cordial assurances Of my esteem and re-
gard, am truly your friend and obcdient servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq. II. CLAY.
Extract Of letter from Hon. Muard Fillmore
Il have read it merchants Magazine) with a good
deal OF attention. and have hesitation in saving that
think itone Of the most valuable periodicals that was
published To the merchant it seems quite indis-
pensable and to the statesman and of general nfor
nation almost equally desirable. 1t is grand repository
of useful facts and information, which be found no
where well digested and accessible in these num-
bers only regret that do not the whole work
Letter iron, tie Hon. Thomas IT. Benton
WASHINGTON CRY, April 20, 1s49
MIR. Freeman Hunt.--Sr: owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azine, and have found il in reality to be magazine and
that well repcnshed of all the useful matter which the
title would imply and presented with fuIlness and
cearness which delights while it instrcts. 1t u.s. in
merchants magazine in the large acceptation of the
tcrm-mcrchants who go between nations, whose large
view of the state Of the world into daily requson But
it is not the great merchant only but the Of
modest but nevertheless of most useful operationsht
merchant of the interior aso-who 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
extends to the legislator and dipomatist and to all who
arc charged with managing the affairs Of the nation Fo
myself. have found il most useful to in my senate
rial labors, and have been in the habit for many years
carefully consulting it.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS II. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. Wm. IT. Sercard.
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness TO place my name OF
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine.
regard il invaluable work for the of all VIII,
would understand not merely commercial operations il
this extending country, but the fiscal and commercial
questions involved in the administration of the
ment.
am with great respect, your humble servant,
! Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly, at IA.
Fulton street. New York, by FREEMAN Hunt, and fur
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