Thayer & Eldridge

Thayer & Eldridge (ca.1860–1861) was a publishing firm in Boston, Massachusetts, established by William Wilde Thayer and Charles W. Eldridge.[1][2] During its brief existence the firm issued works by James Redpath, Charles Sumner, and Walt Whitman, before going bankrupt in 1861.[3]

Whitman's Leaves of Grass, 1860 (New York Public Library)

Published by the firm

Advertisement for Thayer & Eldridge's "National Library," 1860

References

  1. Boston Almanac. 1860
  2. William Wilde Thayer (1829–1896 and Charles W. Eldridge (1837–1903). cf. http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_57.html Retrieved 2010-09-11
  3. Ronald S. Coddington (22 March 2013). "Walt Whitman’s Boss". New York Times. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
  4. Oswald Garrison Villard. John Brown, 1800–1859: a biography fifty years after. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910

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