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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.


1857 u sF Exatlishsd, july, 1882
BY FRESHMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
NHE Number for December, 1885, completed the twen-
Il y-third seiniannuai volume. The work has been
n"m eonfans e. ss IN july 1852 ana each
pages. few complete sets Of the Magazine may be
obtained at the publishers office, 142 Fulton street New
York, neatly and substantially bound dollars and
a half per volume
The following few Of the many commendatory let
ers received by the editor OF the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen: 4 Y -
Letter from TIE Hon. Henry clay.
hnH ASHLAND, 10th July, 1S49.
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
your friends at the it. When feel under OBJ
legations those who have contributed to intorma-
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS TO possess
all the knowledge of hem of their OF the ea-
lures OF their counenance and of the character and hab
its OF their mind which acquire You have placed
your numerous readers Cat least you have me- 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 have alluded
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
Review, and have hesitation expressing my humble
opinion thatit is emnenty entitled TO the public regard
amount of valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only TO the merchant but TO the states
to the cultvator of the EARTH the manufacturer,
the mariner in short to all classes of the business and
reading community.
Entertaining this opinion, glad has been and
hope that it may continue to be- literally paronized
Offering you cordial assurances of my esteem and
gard, am truly your friend and obedient servant
Freeman Hunt, esq. t.s.Et III. CLAY.
| EXTRACT of a letter from Hon. AiUard Fillmore.
81 have read 1t (DIerchants' Magazine) with good
deal Of attention. and have hesitation in saying that
think 1t one of the most valuable periodicals that
ever published TO the merchant 1t quite indis-
pensabe and to the statesman and of general nor
nation almost equally desirable 1t is grand repository
of useful facts and information which be found
where well dgested and accessible as in these num-
bers- only regret that do not the whole work"
Letter from the Hon. Thomas H Benton 8
WASHINGTON CRY, April 20, 1s49.
| Mr.. Freeman Hunt-Sir: i owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azine, and have found it in reality to be magosRe and
that well replenished of all the useful matter which
title would imply, and presented with fullness and
cearness which delights while it nsructs 1t u.s. fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptation of the
term-merchants who go between nations, whose large
view of the state of the world daily requistion But
is not the great merchant only but the of
modest but nevertheless of most useful operaonsthe
merchant of the interior alsowbo will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit of his BUSH
and the elevation of the mercantile character
qures Nor its utility at all confined to merchants but
extends to the legislator and dipomatis and to all who
charged with managing the affairs Of the nation For
myself have found 1t most useful to in my senate
rial abors and have been in the habit for many years Of
carefully consulting it. III
Very respectfully, sir, your obedent servant,
| THOMAS H. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. VIM. III. Seaodrd.
My Dear Sir Have the goodness to place my name on
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard 1t as an 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.
| am, with great respect your humble servant,
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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