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

• Rufus B. Sage. Rocky Mountain Life: Or, Startling Scenes and Perilous Adventures in the Far West, during an Expedition of Three Years. 1859. Google books
• Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, 3rd ed. 1860
• James Redpath. The public life of Capt. John Brown. 1860.^[4] Google books
• James Redpath. Echoes of Harper's Ferry. 1860. Google books
• Charles Sumner. The Barbarism of Slavery: Speech of Mr. Charles Sumner on the bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state, in the United States Senate, June 4, 1860. Google books
• James Redpath, ed. Echoes of Harper's Ferry. 1860. Google books
• William T. Adams. Marrying a beggar: or The Angel in disguise, and other tales. 1860. Google books
• C.W. Dana. The Great West, Or The Garden of the World: Its History, Its Wealth, Its Natural Advantages, and Its Future. 1861. Google books

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

Further reading

• W.W. Thayer. "Notes from an Autobiography." The Conservator (Philadelphia), June 1914. Google books