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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
EstabEished, JstIv, 1889,
NY BRAKEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND pRopnInToR


ny FRkEAAR HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
rT,HE Number for December 1850, completed the twen-
Il ty-third semiannual volume. The work has been
enlarged commencement in july 1889 ana eaeh
volume more than seven hundred large oc-
tavo pages few complete sets of the Magazine may be
obtained at the publishers once I42 Fulton street New
York neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
a half per volume.
The following few of the many eommendatory let
ters received by the editor OF the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter from the Hon. Henry Clay.
Il ASHLAND, 10th July, 1870.
Dear Sir: wish to express to you the qualification
derived on 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 fit hen feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed TO our ntorma-
ton and amusement we are naturally defrons 70 ossess
all the knowledge Them their appearance, OF the fe
lures of their eountenance aud of the character and hab
its Of their mind, which acquire ion have placed
your numerous readers lat least you have me- II may
not speak for them) under those obligations; 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 It is eminenty entitled 10 the public regard
support 1t collects and aranges good order large
amount of valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only to the merchant but 10 the states
man. to the cultivator Of the earth, the manufacturer,
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 patronized
Offering you cordial s Of my esteem and re-
sa freeman Hunt esq esq. - @-'N 0'S IL CLAY
Extract Of a letter from Han MtUard Fillmore.
81 have read 1t (Aierchapts Magazine) with a good
deal of attention. and have hesitation in saying that
think it Of the most valuable periodicals that
published To the merchant il seems quite indis-
pensabe and to the statesman and man Of general ntor
nation almost equally desirable 1t is grand repository
of useful facts and information, which can he found
where well dgesed and SO accessible as in tce num-
bers only regret that do not own the wholework
| Letter from he Hon Thomas II. BENTON.
WASHINGTON Cry, April DO 1910.
Mr.. Freeman Hunt--.Sir: owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azine found it in reality to he RGgdsipe, and
that well rcplenished, OF all the useful matter which the
cearness which delights while it instrucs. III is fact,
merchants magazine in the large accepation of the
term-merchants who go between nations whose large
operations bring many departments Of know ledge, and
view of the state of the world into daily requiton But
it is the great merchant only hut the Of
modest but, nevertheless, OF most useful opeatonhe
merchant Of the interior asowho VIII find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit of his si
the elevation of the mercantile character
aures Nor is its utility Mt all confined to merchants but
extends to the legislator and dipomatist and to all who
charged with managing the affairs OF the nation For
myself have found il useful in senate
rial abos and have been in the habit for many years of
carefully consulting it.
! Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS H. BENTON.
| Letter from Hon. Nm. H. So0rd.
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my on
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine.
regard it 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
i ment.
Ii am, with great respect your humble servant.
/ Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM Ii. SEWARD.
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