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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. AK.
EsfohJ;sbs,J E,JsI 1880

BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND Proprietor.
THE Number for December, 1850 completed the twspr
J. ty-third semiannual volume, The work has been
volume contains than hundred large oo
tayo pages few complete sets Of the Magazine may DO
obtained at the publishers oce l42 Fulton street. New
York. neatly and substantially bound, for two dollars ana
half per volume. M lt'ts IA. ~
The following are few Of the many eommendatoty let
tiers received by the editor of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen; .fa,s t5s46I N, tl
Letter from the Hon. Henry Clay. NJ b. s8y,a
N.. ASHLAND, 10th July, l84o ~
derived on receiving the july number Of tie Mercbs1
Magazine and Commercial. Review, from viewing your
portrait in the beginning and from reading your address
to your friends at the end oft When feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed our ifoms-
ton and amusement naturally DESTROYS TO possess
all the knowledge Of them, OF their appearance OF the
lures of their countenancs and Of the character and hab
s OF their mind which acquire. You have placed
not speak for them9 under those obsaons and The
number OF your valuable work before me, in some
degree, satisfies the desire to which have alluded
nave become quite familiar with the Magazine and
Review ana have no hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that It eminenty entitled to the public regard
amount of valuable statistical and other Information,
highly useful not only to the merchant but the
man. to the cuvator Of the EARTH to the manufacturer
to the Mariner in short to all classes of the business and
reading community. ast
Entertaining this opinion glad has BEEN and
hope that it may continue to be, literally patronized
Offering you cordial of my esteem and re-
Err Freeman Hunt, esq. - H. CLAY.
Extract Of letter from Hon. 1huard Fillmore An
81 have read it CMerchants' Magazine) with good
deal of attentions and have hesitation in saying that
think it Of the most valuable periodicals that was
ever published. To the merchant 1t quite indis-
pensabe, and to the statesman and of general nor
nation almost equally desirable. 1t is grand repository
of useful facts and information, which can be found
where well digested accessible in these num-
bers only regret that do not own the whole work.
. Letter from, the Hon. Thomas IT. Benton.
WASHINGTON Cry April 20, 1910. +
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the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag.
azne and have found it in reality be magazine ana
that well repenshed of all the useful matter which tho
title would imply and presented with fullness and
clearness which delights while 1t nsructs 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 andsa
view of the state of the world into daily requton But
it is not the great merchant only but the of more
modest but nevertheless of most useful operaons-the
merchant of the interior alsowho win find this magazine
to abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character re-
qures. Nor Is its utility at all confined merchants but
extends to the legislator and dipomats and to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the nation For
myself have found 1t most useful to In my senate
rial abors and have been in the habit for many years Of
carefully consulting it. ~ :
Very respectfully sir your obedient servant,
THOMAS II. BENTON. i
Letter from Hon. VIM. III. Ss,oard
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place my name on
your list of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard it invaluable work for the of all who
woald understand not merely commercial operations in
this extending country, but the fiscal and commercial
questions involved in the administration Of the
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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