The attraction -- 1855-1856. The Saturday club is born: Also the magazine or Atlantic Club -- 1856 -- Louis Agassiz -- Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -- John Sullivan Dwight -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar -- James Russell Lowell -- John Lothrop Motley -- Benjamin Peirce -- Samuel Gray Ward -- Edwin Percy Whipple -- Horatio Woodman -- 1857 -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Cornelius Conway Felton -- 1858 -- William Hickling Prescott -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Thomas Gold Appleton -- John Murray Forbes -- 1860 -- Charles Eliot Norton -- 1861 -- James Elliot Cabot -- Samuel Gridley Howe -- Frederick Henry Hedge -- Estes Howe -- 1862 -- Charles Sumner -- 1863 -- Henry James -- 1865 -- John Albion Andrew -- Martin Brimmer -- James Thomas Fields -- Samuel Worcester Rowse -- 1865 -- 1866 -- Jeffries Wyman -- 1867 -- Ephraim Whitman Gurney -- 1868 -- 1869 -- William Morris Hunt -- 1870 -- Charles Francis Adams