Thoreau and other prominent members of the community establish the Concord Athenaeum. Thoreau contributes the following journals jointly with Ralph Waldo Emerson: London Phalanx, Cambridge Miscellany, Dial, New-York Weekly Tribune, Anti-Slavery Standard, Albany Cultivator, Lynn Washingtonian, Boston Miscellany (The Transcendentalists and Minerva, 3:890-5).
Nathaniel Hawthorne writes in his journal: