Career
He lived in the Boston, Massachusetts area and in Paris, France. From ca.1848 West.P. Fetridge lived in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fetridge and Company operated in Boston from 1850 through 1855.
In addition to publishing books on a wide variety of topics, the company also ran a retail shop that sold popular magazines, medical journals, law journals, and foreign news.
The shop was known as the Periodical Depot or the Periodical Arcade, with entrances on both Washington Street and State Street. British and foreign medical reviews.
Democratic and Whig reviews. London newspapers."
The Periodical Arcade also sold Jacob Townsend"s Genuine Sarsparilla.
And "The Balm of a Thousand Flowers," a soap compound of "oil, ashes and alcohol." In 1851 proprietors of the Periodical Arcade included T.M. Fetridge and Thomas Wagstaff.
Harper"s publishing company sent Fetridge to Europe around 1862 to compile a travel guide. The success of the first Harper"s Hand-Book for Travellers led to updated editions in later years. Fetridge lived the last part of his life in Paris, where he died in 1896.
Warren Colburn.
An introduction to algebra, upon the inductive method of instruction. 1851.
Abner Forbes; J West Greene. Rich men of Massachusetts: containing a statement of the reputed wealth of about two thousand persons, with brief sketches of nearly fifteen hundred characters.
1852.
Boston slave riot, and trial of Anthony Burns: Containing the report of the Faneuil Hall meeting, the murder of Batchelder, Theodore Parker"s Lesson for the day, speeches of counsel on both sides, corrected by themselves, a verbatim report of Judge Loring"s decision, and detailed account of the embarkation.
1854.
Alexander Fraser Tytler. Universal history, from the creation of the world to the beginning of the eighteenth century. ca.1855.
Ann South Stephens. The old homestead. 1855.
Mission Pardoe.
The wife"s trials: A novel. 1855.
Hannah Webster Foster.
Jane East Locke. The coquette. Or, The history of Eliza Wharton.
A novel: founded on fact.
1855.
Selected works written by West.P. Fetridge
Harper"s Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 1862-ca.1885. Harper"s phrase-book
Or, Hand-book of travel talk for travellers and schools.
Being a guide to conversations in English, French, German, and Italian, on a new and improved method. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1868.
The rise and fall of the Paris commune in 1871. With a full account of the bombardment, capture, and burning of the city.
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1871.
