Saturday Club is established.

Organized by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Samuel Gray Ward, and Horatio Woodman, it meets initially at 3 p.m. on the last Saturday of the month in the Parker House dining room above the School Street entrance. Incorporated in 1886, its purpose is to promote conversation and discussion upon historical, literary, scientific, and artistic subjects. Members subsequently include most of the notable Boston-area men n of letters, but not Henry David Thoreau, who claims “[I prefer] the Gentleman’s [Waiting] Room at the Fitchburg Depot.” Oliver Wendell Holmes memorializes the club and its members in a poem in 1884.* Meetings are subsequently moved to the Union Club in 1902, back to the Parker House, and finally to the Somerset Club, where it continues today.