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]

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.^[4]
• Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, 3rd ed. 1860
• Leaves of Grass Imprints. 1860
• James Redpath. The public life of Capt. John Brown. 1860.^[5][6]
• James Redpath, ed. Echoes of Harper's Ferry. 1860.^[7]
• 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.^[8]
• William T. Adams. Marrying a beggar: or The Angel in disguise, and other tales. 1860.^[9]
• William Douglas Conner. Harrington; a Story of True Love. 1860. ^[10]
• C.W. Dana. The Great West, Or The Garden of the World: Its History, Its Wealth, Its Natural Advantages, and Its Future. 1861.^[11]
• 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