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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
EstablsShod, Jttlv. 1899

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By FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
VIE Number for December, 1850, completed the TWEEN.
ythird semi-annual volume The work has been
enlarged since its commencement july 1885, and each
volume now contains than hundred large oe.
tayo pages few complete sets Of the Magazine may
obtained at the publishers office, 142 street. New
York. neatly and substantially bound two dollars and
half per volume
The following few Of the many commendatory let
tiers received by the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen;
Letter from the Hon. HENRY Clay
ASHLAND, 10th July, 1S4e.
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 feel OBJ
legations 10 those who have contributed to nforma-
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS TO possess
all the knowledge OF hem OF their appearance OF the fea
lures OF their counenancc and OF the character and hab
its Of their mind which acquire You have placed
your numerous readers lat 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, satshes the desire to which have alluded
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
Review, and have hesitation in expressing humble
opinion that is emnenty entitled TO the public regard
and support collects and arranges in good order large
amount OF valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only to the merchant but to the states
to the cutyator OF the EARTH to the manufacturer
to the Mariner in short to all classes OF the business and
reading community.
Entertaining opinion am glad that has been and
hope that it may continue to be- literally patronzed
Offering you cordial assurances of my esteem and
card am truly your friend and obedient servant,
freeman Hunt esq IL. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Millayd Fillmore
~ have read it (Serchants' Magazine) with good
deal of attention. and have hesitation in saying that
think IL of the most valuable periodicals that
ever published To the merchant 1t quite indis-
pensable and to the statesman OF general nor-
nation almost equally desirable 1t s grand repository
of useful facts and information which
where so well dgested and accessible in these
beers. only regret that do not the whole work."
Letter from the Hon. Thomas H. Benton.
WASHINGTON Cry, April 20, 1910.
III uNa Won MAN pks fnr
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azne, and have found it in reality be magazine and
that well replenished of all the useful matter which
clearness which delights while it nsructs 1t is in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptatiop of the
term-merchants who go between nations, whose large
operations bring many departments of knowledge,
view of the state of the world, into daily rcquston But
it is not the great merchant only but the of
modest but nevertheless, of most useful
merchant of the interior alsowho win find this magazine
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 and dpomatist and to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation. For
myself have found 1t most useful to senate
rial abor and have been in the habit for many years of
carefully consulting it,
Very respectfully, sir, your obedent servant,
THOMAS II. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. VIM II. Secard.
My Dear Sir Have the goodness to place my name on
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard it 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 the administration
ment
am, with great respect your humble servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM ii. SEWARD.
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly at 42
Fulton street, New York, by FREEMAN HUNT, fur
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