Sara A.C. Plummer, Falling Leaves, privately printed, n.d. (c. 1917) 5.25” x 7”, 29 pages, dark red cloth covered stiff wraps or flexible boards. Inscribed by the author.

Slim volume of poetry from a Michigan – Seattle poet who was active in the National Woman’s Relief Corps, an auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. Plummer was raised in Michigan, as was her husband, William Henry Plummer, who served in Company G of the Old 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry. The 18 poems include odes to household pets, Snoqualmie Falls, nature, and Ulysses S. Grant, as well as reflections and reminiscences of the Civil War. Another, “The School at Talladega”, is about a slave who helped build the school. Laid in are additional poems by Plummer; some clipped from newspapers, but most privately printed. Included in the laid-in material are tributes to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, Seattle’s mounted police, and her husband and his brother, who was killed at Chancellorsville. Another item, “The Army Nurse”, was prepared by Plummer for use in the NWRC 50th anniversary celebration. It contains two brief pieces on Civil War nursing and a poem (not by Plummer).

Plummer inscribed this copy “To my friend Mrs. Winans with the love of The Author.” Plummer has not signed her name.

Small spot on front board, endpapers shadowed from laid-in materials, else near fine with minor wear.