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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
EstQblShed JUN, 1889,

By EREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
THE Number for December 1850, completed the TWEEN
- ythird semiannual volume. The work has been
volume now contains than hundred large 90
tsyo pages few complete sets Of the Magazine be
half per volume. M
The following are few Of the many commendatory let
ters received by the editor the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen: III
Letter from the Hon Henry Olay
AsHIAsD, Goth July, l849
Dear Sir: wish to express to you the qualification
derived receiving the July number Of the MERCHANT
Magazine and Commercial Review from viewing yosr
portrait in the beginning, and from reading your address
to your friends the end oft When we feel under o.
legations TO those who have contributed to infora
ton and amusement are naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge Of Them Of their appearance the es
lures OF their countenance and Of the character hab
Its Of their mind which acquire You have placed
not speak for hem) under those obligations and the
number Of your valuable work now before 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 tnat y i smneny entitled 70 the public regard
support coects 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 cuvaor of the EARTH to the manufactursr
TO the Mariner n short to all classes Of the business and
reading community. sH# #Nf
Entertaining this opinion glad that has been and
hope that 1t may continue to be- literally paronized
Offering you cordial assurances Of my esteem and 70
gard am truly your friend and obedient servant
Freeman Hunt, esq. II. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. MUard Fillmore.
al have read it NIerchants' Magazine) with good
deal of attention. and have hesitation In saying that
think 1t Of the most valuable periodicals that was
ever published. To the merchant 1t quite indis-
pensable, and to the statesman and of general nor
nation almost equally desirable. 1t grand repository
of useful facts and inormation which be found
whore well digested and accessible these
bers only regret that do not the whole work."
Latter from The Hon. Thomas II. Benton.
WASHINGTON CrrY, April 20, 1S49.
N.Y. TpxUa uny man ftor. he fnN
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found In reality to be magazine and
that well repenshed Of all the useful matter which tho
clearness which delights while 1t nsructs 1t is in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptation Of the
term-merchants who 60 between nations, whose large
operations bring many departments of knowledge, and
view Of the state Of the world into daily requon But
1t is not the great merchant only, but the Of
modest but nevertheless of most useful operatonsthe
merchant OF the interior alsowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
and the elevation Of the mercantile character re-
quires Nor its utility at all confined to merchants but
extends to the legislator and dipomati and to all who
myself have found 1t most useful to in my senate
rial labors, 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. YIN. II. Se,oard
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my name on
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard 1t 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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