1877. Full page poem printed in one complete issue of The Galaxy for July 1877. Believed to be first printing of this poem. Other articles included in this issue. Journal is in original printed pale green pictorial wraps. Octavo, 148p., numerous illustrated advertisements, wraps. Lacks rear cover panel. Name stamp of Dr. Titus M. Coan, author of first article in issue, on front. Near Good, cover worn and frayed.
Emma Lazarus was an American Jewish poet born in New York City.
She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903. The sonnet was written for and donated to an auction, conducted by the "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty" to raise funds to build the pedestal.