Foreign Library and Bookshop opens.

(July) [Aug.-Marshall] Operated by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, it is located in the first-floor front parlor of her home at 13 – 15 West Street. The shop, stocked with 1,500 books, newspapers, and foreign periodicals, and soon becomes a circulating library and hosts meetings of the Transcendental Club and conversations by Margaret Fuller. George Bradford later calls it “[A] hotbed of intellectual and social reform.” An annex opens at 109 Washington Street during 1841 and 1842. The shop continues to operate until Peabody leaves Boston to teach in New Jersey in 1853.