Conversations of Margaret Fuller are first held.

The Wednesday series take place in Mary Peabody’s room in a boarding house at 1 Chauncy Place, then move to today’s 13 – 15 West Street. Subscriptions cost $25 and they are attended by a dozen or more women, many the wives of Boston men of letters. Fuller borrowed the concept from Bronson Alcott, later writes James Freeman Clarke, “Conversation is my natural element. I need to be [called out] and never think alone [without] the instigation of some conversation.” But Emerson subsequently complains that Fuller reduced the women “to satellites [by her] “burly masculine existence.” A second series begins in March 1840. Subsequent sessions are held on Saturdays and men are allowed to attend a Monday series in 1841.