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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
sE- ESk1hlisbad .JalLU 1889,

EstdOtShed, Juy, 1908,
BY FREEMAN HUNT EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
FIHE Number for December, $780, completed the TWEEN
l. tythird semiannual volume The work has been
enlarged since its commencement In July, 1882 and each
volume now contains more than hundred large oc
tayo pages few complete sets Of the Magazine may DO
obtained the publishers Office, l+2 Fulton street. New
York neatly and substantially bound for dollars and
a half per volume
The following are few Of the many commendatory let
tiers received by the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen;
Letter from the Hon. Henry Ctay
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, tom viewing your
portrait in the beginning and from reading your address
TO your friends ut the end of When we feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed 70 our inornA
ton amusement naturally desrous to possess
all the knowledge OF hem Of their appearance OF the TEA
lures of their countenance and OF the character and ha
its of their mind which acquire You have placed
your numerous readers (a least you have me- II may
not speak for them) under those obligations; and the
number OF your valuable work now before me- III some
degree, satisfies the desire to which have alluded
have become quite familiar with the Magazine anu
Review, and have no hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that II is eminenty entitled 10 the pubic 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 cutvator of the earh to the manufacturer
to the Mariner in short to all classes Of the business and
reading community.
Entertaining this opinion, glad that it has been and
hope that it may continue to be, literally psronized
Offering you cordial assurances of my esteem and re-
Freeman Hunt. esq. - H. CLAY
Extract Of letter from Hon. Miliard Fillmore.
~ have read il (Nlerchants Magazine) with good
cal of attention, and have no hesitation in say ing that
think il of the most valuable periodicals that
published. TO the merchant it quite ndis-
pensabe and TO the statesman and man Of general nfor
nation almost equally desirable Ii is grand repository
of useful facts and information, which can be found
where well digesed and accessible in these num-
bers only regret that do not own the whole work."
Letter from Tie Hon. Thomas H. Benton.
WASHINGTON CITY, April 20, 1919.
Mr.. Freeman Hunt.-Sir: owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found 1t in reality to be naqazae and
title would imply, and presented with fullness and
clearness which delights while it instructs 1t is fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptation Of the
tern-merchants who go between nations whose large
operations bring departments of knowledge, and
view of the state of the world into daily requisiion But
it is not the great merchant only but the of
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
quires. Nor Is its utility ut all confined to merchants but
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found 1t most useful to in my senate
rial abos and have been in the habit for many years of
carefully consulting it.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedent servant,
THOMAS H. BENTON.
4. Letter from, Hon. Han II. iSe,oard
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 commercial
questions involved in the administration of the govern
ment.
I am, with great respect, your humble servant,
Freeman Hunt esq. WILLIAM III. SEWARD.
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly, at lt2
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