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Where the little musk ox

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  • Title: Where the little musk ox
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: uva.00261
  • Source: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early 1850s as he was composing the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. A line from the manuscript appears in the first poem of that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself."
  • Related Item(s):
    • Lines on the back of this manuscript leaf also relate to the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself." See uva.00262.
    • See wwa.00063.
  • Notes written on manuscript: On leaf 1 recto, in unknown hand: "12"
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Where the little musk ox." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: uva.00261.xml (TEI)

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Textual Feature Appearance
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
Added inline purple with double underline
Uncertain gray with wavy underline
Supplied from another source turquoise with brackets
Metamark green with triple underline
Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
  [begin leaf 1 recto] 12 Where the little musk ox carries his 
  perfumed bag at his navel; Where the life car is drawn on its slip‑noose At dinner on a dish of huckleberries, or rye bread 
  and a round white pot cheese: [cut away]   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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