Thayer & Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 7 March 1860

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Title: Thayer & Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 7 March 1860
Date: March 7, 1860
Creator(s): Thayer & Eldridge
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00563
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loc.00563.001.jpg Boston March 7, 1860 Walt Whitman
Brooklyn, N.Y. Dear Sir

When we1 wrote you last week that our Mr. Thayer would be in NYork on Saturday and see you, he was in another section of Country and anticipated being in York without fail on the day we stated, on his way home, but circumstances have prevented his coming that way at all.

We would therefore say that we will agree to give you the amount you wish per week for four or five weeks, and shall expect to see you at our place on Monday or Tuesday of next week, when we shall be able to attend to your work & put it through

Yours Truly Thayer & Eldridge

Notes

1. Thayer and Eldridge was a Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860). For more on Whitman's relationship with Thayer and Eldridge see "Thayer, William Wilde (1829–1896) and Charles W. Eldridge (1837–1903)." [back]