Thayer & Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 9 March 1860

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Title: Thayer & Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 9 March 1860
Date: March 9, 1860
Creator(s): Thayer & Eldridge
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00564
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loc.00564.001.jpg Boston March 9/60 6 o'clock P.M. Walt Whitman

Dr Sir.

Yours of Thursday morning rec'd this A.M.~

Your suggestions are pertinent to the business under consideration, all of which are most amply satisfactory. Your letter is such a capital one, that it has intensified our1 disappointment that our Mr. Thayer was not able to see you last Saturday or Sunday. Business obliged him to return to Boston from the West, but he will leave here for New York Sunday night & will put up either at the Astor, Lovejoys or the hotel Corner Nassau & Beekman Streets. If he does not see you in the morning at above places, he will call at your house in the afternoon say at 3 o'clock.

Our Mr. Eldridge will reply to your letter at length tomorrow afternoon mail. —Our thanks for your most excellent and practical letter.

Your Friends 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]