Thayer & Eldridge

Thayer & Eldridge (c.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]

Published by the firm

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, ed. 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
William T. Adams. Marrying a beggar: or The Angel in disguise, and other tales. 1860. Google books
William Douglas Conner. Harrington; a Story of True Love. 1860. Full Text
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
A Son of Temperance ed. Thrilling Scenes in Social Life or The Opposite Effects of Vice and Virtue. 1860

Contracted but not published because of bankruptcy

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs under pseudonym, edited by L. Maria Child
Guide to Hayti, by James Redpath
Asphodel; a Novel, by Ada Clare

References

^ Boston Almanac. 1860
^ 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
^ Ronald S. Coddington (22 March 2013). "Walt Whitman's Boss". New York Times. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
^ Oswald Garrison Villard. John Brown, 1800–1859: a biography fifty years after. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910

Published by the firm

Contracted but not published because of bankruptcy

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