Concord, Mass. Thoreau’s father purchases a house on Main Street for $1,450 from Henry L. Shattuck. Due to repairs and renovations, the Thoreaus don’t move in until 29 August 1850 (Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 24 (July 1948):1).
Boston, Mass. The Boston Semi-Weekly Advertiser notes a recently published translation of Prometheus’s first soliloquy, comparing it to Thoreau’s translation in the Dial:
[Mr. Herbert’s] is a fair specimen of his work; and [we] subjoin Mr. Thoreau’s bold translation of the same passage published some years since—as the nearest approach we have at hand to that which it is not, a literally faithful rendering of the original.
See entry October.
New York, N.Y. The first and only issue of Æsthetic Papers is reviewed in The Literary World:
. . . an article on “Resistance to Civil Government” whose author would make it every man’s duty to refuse allegiance to the state, whenever any of its laws violate his conscience. He has carried out his theory in his own case, asn been shut up in prison for refusing to pay his “poll tax.” He appeals to the New Testament, even; by which he means, of course, that part of it which may be made to coincide with his own opinions, and not whose ugly precepts about the paying of tribute, and submission to the powers that be. This article is about as fit in a volume of “Æsthetic Papers” as would be “the voyage of Gulliver.”
