In 1842, the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea, whom Babbage had met while travelling in Italy, wrote a description of the engine in French.

Also writing in the German language, Jeremias Gotthelf wrote The Black Spider ( 1842 ), an allegorical work which used gothic themes.

John Bellenden Ker (? 1765 – 1842 ), for example, wrote four volumes arguing that English nursery rhymes were actually written in ' Low Saxon ', a hypothetical early form of Dutch.

He tentatively wrote of his ideas to Lyell in January 1842 ; then in June he roughed out a 35-page " Pencil Sketch " of his theory.

Peel's support for free trade could already be seen in his 1842 and 1845 budgets ; in late 1842 Graham wrote to Peel that " the next change in the Corn Laws must be to an open trade " while arguing that the government should not tackle the issue.

He wrote that he arrived in Nuku ' alofa in 1842 and met the Tu ' i Kanokupolu Aleamotu ' a who was baptised by the Wesleyan as Sosaia.

North East musical playwright Dennis A Westgate wrote a musical based on the life of Grace Darling, exploring her life from childhood through to her death in 1842.

In the winter of 1840 — 1841 she wrote her famous novella Die Judenbuche ( The Jew's Beech, published 1842 ), based on an incident which had occurred near Bökerhof in the late 18th century.

Other 19th century formulations of this idea include Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, who wrote in 1842, " The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!

Ibbetson began experimenting with Talbot's calotype, and in 1842 wrote to Talbot " I have been going on with experiments in the Callotype & have had some very good results as to depth of Colour.

Using the Verstegan / Wanley version of the tale and adopting the 1376 date, Robert Browning wrote a poem of that name which was published in 1842.

Harrison Ainsworth, in his 1842 novel Guy Fawkes, wrote about the local story that the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was planned by Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby in Ordsall Hall's Star Chamber.

He also wrote the historical plays Heinrich der Fünfte ( Leipzig, 1836 ), Cola Rienzi, Die Bräute von Florenz, Wendelin und Helene and Kaiser Otto III ( the four last being published in his Theater 1842 ).

In 1842, English author Henry F. Chorley wrote God, the Omnipotent!

Soon after, he also wrote a report entitled " Practical Essay on the Curative Agency of Neuro-Hypnotism ", which he applied to have read before the British Association in June 1842.

At Göttingen, whither he had returned as Privatdozent, he wrote a little work on the names of the Hebrew months, proving that they were derived from the Persian, prepared the great article on India in Ersch and Gruber's Encyclopaedia, and published from 1839 to 1842 the Lexicon of Greek Roots which gained him the Volney prize of the Institute of France.

In 1840 he managed the Lyceum theatre, for which he wrote several light burlesques, but in 1842 he moved to the United States, where he became a member of WE Burton's company, for which he wrote several comedies, including Met-a-mora ; or, the Last of the Pollywogs, a parody of John A.

Calixa Lavallée ( 1842 – 1891 ) wrote the music, which was a setting of a patriotic poem composed by the poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier ( 1839 – 1920 ).

On November 10, 1842, Philadelphia's Roman Catholic Bishop, Francis Kenrick, wrote a letter to the Board of Controllers of public schools, asking that Catholic children be allowed to read the Douai version of the Bible, used by Roman Catholics.

As Elizabeth Palmer Peabody wrote for The Dial in January 1842, " none will be engaged merely in bodily labor ...

In 1842, two years before his murder, Joseph Smith, Jr. wrote to John Wentworth, editor of the Chicago Democrat, outlining the basic beliefs of the Latter Day Saint movement and including an account of the First Vision.

In an 1842 description of the Whig, Brownlow wrote, " politically, we are WHIG — ultra whig, and of the old school — the ' sworn and eternal foe of locofocoism.

He is also associated with the first recorded instance of a cycling traffic offence, when a Glasgow newspaper in 1842 reported an accident in which an anonymous " gentleman from Dumfries-shire ... bestride a velocipede ... of ingenious design " knocked over a little girl in Glasgow and was fined five shillings.

Tennyson had previously treated a similar subject in " The Lady of Shalott ", published in 1833 and revised in 1842 ; however that poem was based on the thirteenth century Italian novella Donna do Scalotta, and thus has little in common with Malory's version.

The Upper Avon was leased to the Stratford Canal from 1842, but there was little traffic, and the lease was not renewed in 1847.

Of his mother, little is known, although when she died in 1842, Parkes would say of her that he felt as if a portion of this world's beauty was lost to him forever.

Dennison ( 1976 ) saw it as a legitimate expression of Republicanism in the United States, but concluded that politics changed little for Rhode Islanders after 1842 because the same groups ruled the state.

* The first Lysander was a 4-gun brig, listed from 1842 to 1844 but with little further information available.

Botta arrived in Mosul early in 1842, and tried to collect antiquities, but there was very little to be had, and Botta himself laments that Rich had swept up and carried off everything.

In April 1842 Lord Stanley ( afterwards 14th earl of Derby ), then secretary for the colonies in the second Peel Administration, wrote to Sir George Napier that the establishment of a colony in Natal would be attended with little prospect of advantage, but at the same time stated that the pretensions of the emigrants to be regarded as an independent community could not be admitted.

The rhyme has varied very little since it was first collected by James Orchard Halliwell and published in 1842 with the lyrics:

Located fifteen miles north of the Ohio River, this little village was founded in 1842 by the Reverend Augustine Bessonies and named for the then reigning king of Belgium, Léopold I.

On the Hamilton, Ward sailed from New York to Hong Kong in 1847, but probably saw little beyond the port city because the Qing Dynasty forbade foreigners from venturing inland ( Hong Kong Island had become a British Crown Colony in 1842, at the end of the First Opium War ).

Even this means of livelihood was being closed to him, when in Worcester, Massachusetts, in October 1842, a little kindness shown him by a Quaker induced him to attend a temperance meeting, and to sign a temperance pledge.

Phelps made his début as Shylock in London at the Haymarket Theatre in 1837 and appeared under the management of William Charles Macready at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, who recognized Phelps as a potential rival and gave him little opportunity to display his talents, although Phelps did gain popularity in the roles of Captain Channel in Douglas William Jerrold's melodrama The Prisoner of War ( 1842 ), and of Lord Tresham in Robert Browning's A Blot in the ' Scutcheon ( 1843 ).

Economic stagnation in 1841 and 1842 meant that the S & R saw little profit the following years.

The little community grew, aided by holiday working parties of students from New College at Hackney, a dissenting academy, and the chapel had to be extended in 1825 and rebuilt in 1842.

In 1841 the site was selected by Jefferson Collins, L. B. Mitchell, and Thomas Ferrell and a plat was established in 1842.

Marcus Peck ; 1825 – 1826, William F. Averill ; 1827 – 1833, Marcus Peck ; 1834, Peter F. Westervelt ; 1835 – 1837, John I. Vosburgh ; 1838 – 1839 ; John H. Gregory ; 1840, Calvin Sliter ; 1841, John H. Gregory ; 1842 – 1843, Solomon Coons ; 1844, Reuben A. Thomas ; 1845, S. V. R. Cole ; 1846, David Fonda ; 1847, David Luce ; 1848, Lorenzo M. Lown ; 1849 – 1850, William L. Stewart, jr .; 1851, Jacob Boyce ; 1852, W. H. Wicks ; 1853, Joseph Alden ; 1854, William H. Lyons ; 1855, Samuel D. Seymour ; 1856, Harmon Westfall ; 1857, George Sliter ; 1858, Albert H. Dutcher ; 1859 – 1861, George Sliter ; 1862, D. E. Barnes ; 1863, William H. Ford ; 1864, B. M. Wilkinson ; 1865, Jeffrey P. Thomas ; 1866 – 1867, David Horton ;

Marcus Peck ; 1831, William F. Averill ; 1832, Eleazer Flint ; 1833, Carpenter G. Conklin ; 1834, William L. Stewart ; 1835, Marcus Peck ; 1836, William F. Averill, Eleazer Flint ; 1837, William F. Averill ; 1838, Jacob Hegeman ; 1839, Marcus Peck, John Wood ; 1840, Jacob Wheeler, Ebenezer Barringer ; 1841, Rescome H. Wheeler, Ebenezer Barringer ; 1842, George Carnryck ; 1843, Marcus Peck ; 1844, Jacob Wheeler, Eleazer Wooster ; 1845, Eleazer Wooster ; 1846, George Carnryck ; 1847, Marcus Peck ; 1848, Jacob Wheeler, Willard Foster, Joseph Bly ; 1849, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1851, B. F. Foster, Adam Mott ; 1852, Jacob Boyce ; 1853, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1854, Lewis Sliter, William S. Stewart ; 1855, William Moul, John L. Lape, Thomas Brewer ; 1856, Jacob Wheeler ; 1857, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1858, William M. Horton ;: 859, Joel B. Peck, William Moul ; 1860, S. D. Seymour, Joshua Coons ; 1862, George Sliter ; 1863, William Moul ; 1864, B.

* John L. Mitchell ( 1842 – 1904 ), American politician and father of Gen. Billy Mitchell

* Building 10, also called: L ' ancienne Prison militaire, Former Military Prison, Museum Annex, Annexe du Musée ( constructed in 1842 ) is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.

le Breton, Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de Grétry ( Paris, 1814 ); A Grétry ( his nephew ), Grétry en famille ( Paris, 1814 ); Felix van Hulst, Grétry ( Liege, 1842 ); L. D. S. Notice biographique sur Grétry ( Bruxelles, 1869 ).

* Canney, Donald L The Old Steam Navy, The Ironclads, 1842 – 1885.

* James L. Kemper 1842 — Governor of Virginia, Confederate General wounded during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg.

Suppé was also a singer, making his debut as a basso profundo in the role of Dulcamara in Donizetti's L ' elisir d ' amore at the Sopron Theater in 1842.

L ' Odalisque à l ' esclave | Odalisque with a slave by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, painted in 1842

He spoke up for extending appropriations for an armored vessel that was intended for the defense of New York Harbor ; named the Stevens Battery after its designer and builder Robert L. Stevens, it had been laid down in 1842 but was still incomplete in 1853, when Mallory gave his argument.

* L. t. griseonucha ( J. F. Brandt, 1842 ) Commander Island, and Aleutian Islands ( including Shumagin Islandand Semidi Island ) east to Alaskan Peninsula ; non-breeding south to Kodiak Island.

The main London terminus of the new railway was the former L & CR station at London Bridge ( which had been built by the London and Greenwich Railway ( L & GR ) in 1836, and exchanged for the original L & CR station in 1842 ).

* C. L. Brehm: Die Kunst, Vögel als Bälge zu bereiten-Weimar 1842.

After 1842, the station was jointly administered by the L & BR and the South Eastern Railway ( SER ), which shared the Brighton main line as far as Redhill.

The Whites moved to Harris County, Georgia in 1842, where J. L. White was born.

The L & BR line to Redhill opened on 12 July 1841 and the SER line from Redhill to Tonbridge on 26 May 1842, when SER train services began.

From 1842 the L & CR had pooled its locomotive stock with the South Eastern Railway ( SER ), to form the ' Croydon and Dover Joint Committee '.

Following the death of U. S. Senator Samuel L. Southard he was appointed to the United States Senate starting July 2, 1842 and was re-elected by the New Jersey Legislature as a Whig in 1845, but lost in 1851, ending his service on March 4.

In April 1842 USS Peacock, under Lieutenant William L. Hudson, and USS Flying Fish, surveyed Drummond's Island, which was named for an American of the expedition.

She married, 1881, William Forsyth-Grant, Esquire, formerly Captain of H. M .' s 82nd Regiment, son of William Forsyth, Esquire, of Ecclesgreig, County Kincardine, Scotland, J. P. and D. L., who, in 1842, assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Grant ( Chad-wick ).