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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. ~ ~ =
Estdblished, July, 1889,



By FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
NHE Number for December, 1850, completed the twen
j. ty-third semiannual volume The work has been
enlarged since It's commencement July 1882 and each
pages. few complete the Magazine may be
obtained at the publishers Office Fulton New
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
a half per volume.
The following are a few Of the many commendatory let
tiers received by the editor OF the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen
Letter from the Hon Henry Clay. pypf
ASHLAND Goth July ls49
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 address
to your friends at the end of it. When feel under OBJ
legations To those who have contributed to informs
ton amusement naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge of hem of their appearances OF the fea
lures Of their counenance and of the character and hab
it's Of their mind which acquire You have placed
your numerous readers (at least you have me- If may
not speak for them under those obligations and the
number of your valuable work before me, In some
degree, satisfies the desire TO which alluded
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
opinion that it eminently entitled to the public regard
and support collects and arrangee in good ORDER large
amount of valuable statistical and other Information,
highly useful not only to the merchant but to the states
TO the cutivator of the EARTH to the manufacturer
to the Mariner in Short to oil classes Of the business and
Entertaining this opinion glad that 1t has been and
hope that 1t may continue to be, literally patronizcd
Offering you cordial of my esteem and
gard am truly your friend and obedient servant,
freeman Hunt esq. IL. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. MHavd Fillmore q
81 have read 1t (Merchants Magazipe) with o good
deal Of attention, and have no hesitation in saying that
think it of the most valuable periodicals. that
published. To the merchant II quite indis-
pensabe 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 well dgesed and accessible in these num-
bers. only regret that do not the whole work."
Letter from the Hon. Thomas III Benton. ii.iaY
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Mr. Freeman Hunt.-Sr: / owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found it in reality to be magazine and
title would imply and presented with fullness and
clearncss which delights while it instructs 1t is in fact
merchants magazine in the large accepation 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 requson But
it not the great merchant only but the of
modest but nevertheless OF most useful operatonsthe
merchant of the interior asowho will find this magazine
to 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 the legislator diplomatist, and to all who
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 II. BENTON
Letter from Hon. VIM. II. Ss,card
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my name on
your list Of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
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..y @ ~ III "tss sat
/ am with great respect your humble servant
Freeman Hunt, esq WILLIAM III. SEWARD
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