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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REvIE'
Established, July, 1889,

Established, July, 1889,
by FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
rTNIE Number for December 1850 completed the TWEEN.
/ ty-third semiannual volume The work has been
enlarged since its in July 1885, and each
volume contains than hundred large
tavo pages A few complete sets of the Magazine may
obtained at the publishers office, 142 Fulton street. New
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars
half per volume. rb Z"
The following are few of the many commendatory let
ters received by the editor of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter from ae Hon. Henry clay.
ts III - ts.t ASHLAND, 10th July, 1910.
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 under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed to infora
ton and amusement we are naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge of them of their appearances of the
lures of their counenance and Of the character and hab
its of their mind which acquire You have placed
your readers (at least you have me, il may
not speak for them) under those obligatons 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 hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that 1t 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
man. to the cutyator Of the EARTH to the manufacturer
to the mariners in short TO all classes of the business and
reading community.
Entertaining this opinion am glad that has been and
hope that 1t continue to be- literally patronzcd
Offering you cordial assurances of my esteem and re-
gard, i am truly your friend and obedient servant
freeman Hunt esq. III. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Afudyd Fuzaiorc
"I have read it Cderchants' Magazine) with n good
deal of attention, and have hesitation in saying that
think it of the most valuable periodicals that was
ever published To the merchant 1t seems quite inis
pensabe and to the statesman and Of general infor
nation almost equally desirable. 1t grand repository
Of useful facts and information, which be found
where we'll digested and accessible these num-
bers. only regret that do not own the whole work"
Letter from The Hon Thomas IT. BENTON
WASHINGTON Cry, April 20, 1910.
Mr.. Freeman Uunte-Su. / owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had TO read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found II In reality to be magazine and
that well repenished Of al the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with fuIlness and
cearness which delights while it instcts 1t is in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptation of the
tcrm-merchants who go between nations, whose large
view of the state of the world into daily reauson But
1t is not the great merchant only but the one Of more
modest but nevertheless of most useful operaonsthe
merchant the interior alsowho viii find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit Of his bust
moss and the elevation Of the mercantile character re-
quires Nor Is its utility at all confined to merchants but
extends 10 the legislator and dpoatst and to all who
charged with managing the affairs Of the nation For
myself have found 1t most useful to in my senate
rial labors and have been in the habit for many years Of
carefully consulting 1t. M Ny. 4.
Very respectfully, sir, your obcdient servant
t 81 Ist THOMAS H. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. Nm III Setoard
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 tho administration Of the govern
ment. 7a @ aaut AF 0slfN 4
am, with great respect your humble servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM III. SEWARD. =
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly, ut 142
Fulton street, New York, by FRESHMAN IIuNT, and fur
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