May 1, 1887 Sunday
May 1 Sunday – John Henry Boner wrote to Sam, thanking him for his “kind letter of April the 1st”; Boner had found employement as a proofreader with Theodore L. De Vinne, printer to the Century Co., and Edmund Stedman “made me feel his house my home.” Sam wrote on the env., “Boner the Southern poet” [MTP].