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Special Collections Hours:
Mon - Fri:
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sat-Sun: Closed
The ornate Victorian bookcases that had been in the "scribble den" of the Muir family home in Martinez are now in the Special Collections reading room. Over 700 volumes, approximately half of the books known to have been in Muir’s working library, are stored in these cases.
Some books found in the collection date from Muir's days as a schoolboy in Scotland. Others include family Bibles, textbooks from his days as a student at the University of Wisconsin, books given to him by his friends during his early travel years, and the numerous books he gathered once he settled into life as a family man in Martinez.
Many volumes contain Muir's handwritten notes and annotations. Muir often indexed ideas and phrases on the end-papers of his books, marking the idea that had captured his attention. Many of the volumes are inscribed by the authors to Muir and indicate the influence and friendships Muir had as a national figure among other nineteenth- and early twentieth-century leaders.
Download PDF files of Muir's library contents.
