Society to Encourage Studies at Home is established.

It is founded by Anna Eliot Ticknor and others at a meeting at 9 Park Street. Reputed to be the first correspondence schools in the U.S., its purpose is to encourage women to learn at home. For $2.00 a year, women over the age of 17 could take one of 39 courses by exchanging letters with a female teacher in the Boston area. The organization comes to employ almost 200 instructors who mail books and photos along with written correspondence to their students. The organization continues until 1897.