Events Houghton, Mifflin publishing house founded in Boston, Massachusetts Publishers begin the use of a paper jacket to wrap book covers Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe completes Faust New Books Castle Dangerous - Sir Walter Scott Combination - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna Contarini Fleming - Benjamin Disraeli Count Robert of Paris - Sir Walter Scott The Doomed One - Rosalia St. Clair Eugene Aram - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The Fair of Mayfair - Catherine Gore Fitzallan - Robert Huish Indiana - George Sand Legend of the Moor's Legacy - Washington Irving Nautical Reminiscences - Nathaniel Ames Newton Forster - Frederick Marryat The Opera - Catherine Gore The Unchanged - Selina Davenport Valentine - George Sand Volupte - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Births January 13 - Horatio Alger, Jr, writer (+ 1899) January 27 - Lewis Carroll, author (+ 1898) November 29 - Louisa May Alcott, author (+ 1888) Hesba Stretton, English children's author (+ 1911) Deaths March 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer and poet September 21 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet Awards