Thayer & Eldridge (c.1860–1861) was a publishing firm in Boston, Massachusetts, established by William Wilde Thayer and Charles W. Eldridge.Boston Almanac. 1860William Wilde Thayer (1829–1896 and Charles W. Eldridge (1837–1903). cf. Retrieved 2010-09-11 During its brief existence the firm issued works by James Redpath, Charles Sumner, and Walt Whitman, before going bankrupt in 1861.
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. Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, 3rd ed. 1860 Leaves of Grass Imprints. 1860 James Redpath. The public life of Capt. John Brown. 1860.Oswald Garrison Villard. John Brown, 1800–1859: a biography fifty years after. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910 James Redpath, ed. Echoes of Harper's Ferry. 1860. 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. William T. Adams. Marrying a beggar: or The Angel in disguise, and other tales. 1860. William Douglas Conner. Harrington; a Story of True Love. 1860. C.W. Dana. The Great West, Or The Garden of the World: Its History, Its Wealth, Its Natural Advantages, and Its Future. 1861. 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
Further reading
W.W. Thayer. "Notes from an Autobiography." The Conservator (Philadelphia), June 1914. Google books