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HUNTS. MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
EstablisAsd Jllly, 1885,

Eaablisasd tly, 1855,
BE FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
NHE Number for December 1860, completed the TWEEN.
IL y-thfd semi ANNUAL volume The work has been
enlarged since its commencement in July 1882 aud each
volume now contains than hundred large 90
tavo pages complete sets Of the Magazine may be
obtained the publishers ONCE I42 Fulton street New
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars ana
half per volume.
ters received by the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen
Letter from ne Hon. Henry clay.
ASHLAND, Goth 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 address
to your friends the end OF it, When feel under OBJ
legations TO those who have contributed to our informa
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge of Them Of their appearance of the fea
lures Of their counenance and OF the character and bab
its OF their mind which acquire You have placed
your numerous readers lat least you have me- II may
not speak for the) under those oblgations 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 is enenty entitled to the public regard
support 1t collects and arrapges good ORDER large
amount Of valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful only to the merchant but TO the states
man. to the cultivator of the EARTH to the manufacturer
to the maner in short to all classes business and
reading community. eFs45 vi r4f.aa.
Entertaining this opinion am glad that has BEEN ana
hope that it may continue to be- literally paronized
Offering you cordial Of my and re-
Freeman Hunt esq. t H. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Millard Fillmore.
81 have read it (Merchants' Magazine) with a good
deal of attention. and have hesitation in saying that
think of the most valuable periodicals that
ever published 10 the merchant it seems quite indis-
pepsable, and to the statesman and of general or
nation almost equally desirable IT 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 III. Benton.
rtrv Anr;I N 10 No.
Mr. Freeman Hunt.-ir: i owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found 1t in reality to be magazine and
that well replenished Of all the useful matter which The
title would imply, and presented with fullness and
clearness which delights while it instructs 1t is in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptation of the
term-merchants who 90 between nations whose large
operations bring many departments of knowledge ana
view of the state of the world into daily requistion But
It is not the great merchant only but the more
modest but nevertheless of most useful operatonsthe
merchant of the interior alsowho will find this magazine
10 abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character re-
quires. Nor Is its utility at all confined to merchants but
extends to the legislator and dplomatst to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found it most useful to in my senate
labors and have been in the habit for many years Of
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
G8 THOMAS II. BENTON.
Letter from, Hon. Vim. H. Seecard
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my name on
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard it as 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. prev
I am, with great respect, your humble servant
Freeman Hunt esq. WILLIAM ii. SEWARD. 4
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