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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
- d ,EssiJ,lisiSsy y,lIy 1890


BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
1NHE Number for December, $780, completed the TWEEN
j. y-third semiannual volume The work has been
enlarged since its in july 1882 aud each
tayo pages few complete sets of the Magazine may be
obtained at the publishers office, 142 Fulton street New
York. neatly anu substantially bound for two dollars and
half per volume 1890
The following are few Of the many commendatory let
received by the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from disting uished statesmen: .@L-lFB
Letter from, the Hon. Henry Clay. af',
ASHLAND, 10th July, lS49.
Dear Sir: wish to express to you the qualification
derived receiving the July number OF the Merchans
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait in the beginning, and from reading address
to your friends ut the end oft When we feel under OBJ
legations TO those who have contributed to our inforra
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge of them of their appearance OF the fear
lures of their counenance and of the character and hab
its of their mind which acquire You have placed
your numerous readers lat 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 no hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that it is eminenty entitled to the public regard
and support 1t 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 cultivator Of the EARTH to the manucturer
to the mariner in short to all classes of the business and
reading community sa Pan N,
Entertaining this opinion, glad that has BEEN and
hope that it may continue to be, literally patronized
Offering you cordial assurances of my esteem and
s' freeman i HUNT eq sna anu CLAY
Extract Of a letter from, Hon. Auard FILLMORE.
al have read it CMerchants Magazine) with good
deal of attention. and have hesitation in saying that
think 1t Of the most valuable periodicals that was
published. To the merchant it seems quite indis
pensablc and to the statesman and Of general nfor
nation almost equally desirable 1t is grand repository
of useful facts and information, which be found
where so well dgesed and accessible in these
bers. only regret that do not the whole work"
Letter from, the Hon. Thomas II. Benton II
WASHINGTON Cry, April 20, 1910.
Mr. Freeman Hunt.-Sir: owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found it in reality be nogd~ine and
that well replenished, of all the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with ullness and
clearnes which delights while it nsructs 1t Isl in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptaton 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 requston But
it not the great merchant only but the Of more
modest but nevertheless of most useful operationsthe
merchant of the interior asowho will 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 dpomatis and to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found it most useful to in my senate
rial abors and have been in the habit for many years Of
carefully consulting it.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
u.E y. THOMAS II. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. I'm. IT. Seaoard.
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard it 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. s#
Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM III. SEWARD.
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly, at l42
Fulton street, New York, by FREEMAN HUNT, and fur
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