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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
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BY BRENNAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPORTION.
HE Number for December 1860, completed the twen-
Il y-third semiannual volume. The work has been
enlarged since Its commencement In july 1885, and each
volume now contains more than hundred large
tsvo pages few complete sets Of the Magazine may be
obtained AZ the ONCE, 142 Fulton street New
neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
half per volume.
The following few Of the many commsndatory let
from distinguished statesmen
Letter from The Hon. Henry Clan r n,
ASHLAND Goth July, 1S49
Dear Sir wish tho 70 express S to yor the
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing lyour
portrait In the beginning and from reading address
to your friends at the end Off When feel under OBJ
legations TO those who have contributed to informa
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge OF them, of their appearance OF the fea
lures Of their of the character and hab
its OF their mind which acquire You have placed
NOT sne r a q. e a you me-
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 humbls
opinion that is eminenty entitled to the public regard
amount of valuable statistical and other information,
highly useful not only TO the merchant but to the states
to the cultvator 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 ana
hope that it may continue to be, literally patronzed
Offering you cordial of my esteem and ro
Freeman Hunt, esq Ii. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Ma1ard Fillmore.
az have read it (Merchants' Magazine) with a 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 inds
pensabe and to the statesman Of general infor
nation almost equally desirable It is grand repository
of useful facts and information, which be
where well digested accessible as in these NUM-
beers. only regret that do not the whole work.
Letter from the Hon. Thomas H. Benton
WASHINGTON CRY, April 20, 1s4o.
azne and have found 1t in reality to be magazine ami
that well repenshed of all the useful matter which ths
title would imply, and presented with fullness and
clearness which delights while 1t nsructs It 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 requision But
1t is not the great merchant only, but the one of more
modest, but nevertheless of most useful operaonsthe
merchant of the interior alsowho will find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit his bust
ness and the elevation of the mercantile character re-
quires Nor Is its utility at all confined merchants but
extends to the legislator and dpomats and to all who
are charged with managing the affairs Of the nation For
myself have found 1t most useful to me in nv senate
rial abors and have been in the habit for many Years Of
carefully consulting 1t.
Very respectfully, sir your obedent servant,
THOMAS II. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. VIM. II. Se,card
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 use 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 1880 3.# n - ~ = ].
am, with great respect, your humble servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM III. SEWARD
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