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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW, Ks
ExLablishsd ytlv 1894 fssT

BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
NHE Number for December, 1885, completed the TWEEN.
Il ty-third semfannual volume The work has been
enlarged since its in july 1885, and each
volume now contains than hundred large
obtained at the publishers ONCE I42 Fulton street New
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
half per volume.
The following few OF the many commendatory let
tors received by the editor Of the Merchant Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter from the Hon. Henry Clay.
ASHLAND, 10th July, 1s49.
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 1T When feel OBJ
legations to those who have contributed TO informa.
ton amusement naturally DESTROYS TO possess
all the knowledge them, of their appearance, Of the feA
lures of their counenance and OF the and hab
Its of their mind which can acquire You have placed
your numerous readers lat least you have me- may
not speak for them) under those obligations; and tho
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 thatit is eminenty entitled TO the public regard
and support collects arranges good ORDER largs
amount of valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only To the merchant but to the states
man. the cultvaor of the EARTH to the manufacturer
to the Mariner in short to all classes of the business and
reading community.
Entertaining this opinion, am glad that has been and
hope that it may continue to be- literally paronized
Offering you cordial assurances of my esteem and
care HUNT anu M CLAY
Extract Of a letter from Hon. MUdrd Fillmore.
81 have read 1t (Nlerchants' Magazne) with good
deal of attention, and have hesitation in saying that
think 1t Of the most valuable periodicals that was
published To the merchant 1t seems quite indis-
pensabe, and to the statesman and of general nor
nation almost equally desirable IT is grand repository
of useful facts and information, which can be found
where well digested and accessible in these
bers. only regret that do not own the whole work."
Letter from the Hon. Thomas H. Benton.
WASHINGTON CITY, April 20, 1S49.
Mr.. Freeman Hunt.-Sr: / owe many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found it in reality to be magazine and
that well repenshed of all the useful matter which tho
cearness which delights while 1t nstructs IL is, in fact
merchants magazine in the large acceptaton of the
term-merchants who go 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 more
modest but nevertheless of most useful operationsthe
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 at all confined to merchants but
extends to the legislator and dplomatst and to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found it most useful to me in my senate
rial abors and have been in the habit for many years
carefully consulting 1t.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS ii. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. I'm. H. Se,vayd.
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my name on
your list of subscribers for tho Merchants Magazine.
regard it 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 III. SEWARD.
The Merchants Magazine is published monthly, at 142
Fulton street, New York, by FREEMAN HUNT, and fur
nshed to subscribers for Five Dollars year. advance.
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