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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
\ FEW complete sets of this Magazine nav
"A be obtained at the publishers Office, ID
Fulton street, New York, neatly and substan.
TALLY bound, for two dollars and half ner
volume. The following are few of the con-.
mandatory letters received by the editor fro,,
distinguished statesmen:
Letter from Hon Henry Clay.
ASHLAND, Goth July, lS49
DEAR SIR: wish to express to you the graz.
ifcation 1 derived on receiving the July num-
Der of the Merchants Magazine and Conner.
cial Review, from viewing your portrait in the
beginning. and from reading your address 10
your friends at the end of it. When we feel
under obligations to those who have contrib.
uted to our information and amusement. We
are naturally DESTROYS to possess a knowledge
OF tnem, OF their appearance, Of the features
OF their countenance, and of the character and
habits OF their mind, which we can ACQUIRE
lou have placed your numerous readers fat
least you have me, if may not speak for them
under those obligations; and the number of
your valuable work now before me. in somo
degree, satisfies the desire to which have al
luded L have become quite familiar with the
Magazine and Review and have no besitatioY
In expressing my humble opinion that it is en-
lnently entitled to the public regard ana sup
port. 1t collects and arranges, In good order
a large amount of valuable statistical an.
other information, highly useful, not only t.
the merchant but to the statesman to the cul
uvator of the earth. to the manufacturer. I
the mariner, in short to all classes of the hr
siness and reading community
Entertaining this opinion. am glad tbst;,
has been, and hope that it NAV continue to he
literally patronized. Offering you cordial as.
surances OF my esteem and regard 7 am firmly
your friend and obedient servant
Freeman Hunt, esq. H.CLAY
Eatr0ct Of Letter from Mflia7d FTHmsre.
g have read it (Merchants' Magazine) with
a good deal OF attention, and have no hesita
ton in saying that think it one of the most
valuable periodicals. that was ever published
Io the merchant 1T seems quite indispensable
and to the statesman and man of general ir
formation almost equally desirable. Tt is q
grand repository of useful facts and inforna-
ton. which can be found nowhere so well d.
gested and so accessible as In these numbers
only regret that / do not own the work -
Letter iron" the Hon. Thomas IT. Benton.
WASHINGTON CITY. April 90. 1919
clft owe You many thanks for the oDpor-
tunlties have had to read the Merchants
Magazine, and have found it in reality tie be
Magazine. and that well repIenished. of all
the useful mattor which the title would implv
and presented with a fullnegs and clearneSs
which delights while it instructs. 1t is. in
tact, merchants magazine in the large ac-
ceptIon OF the terh-merchants who 20 be
tween nations, whose Jorge operations bring
many departments of knowledge, and a view
OF the state of the world into daily requisition
But it is not tie great merchant only. but tie
one OF more modest, but. nevertheless. of most
useful operations-who will find this maga,in
to abound with the information, the pursuit
OF his business and the elevation of the mer-
camille character requires Nor is its utility
at all confined to merchants. but extends to
the legislator and diplomatists. ard 10 all who
are charged with managing the affairs of the
nation. For myself, have found il most use
Iul TO me Ia my senatorial labots and have
been IN the habit for many years of carefully
consulting it. Very RESPECTFULLY. sir. vour
obedlent servant, TII0S. H. BENTON.
FREEMAN HUNT. ESQ.