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The Search for Soma, Julio Mario Santo Domingo & His Lsd Library, Carl Williams Rare Books, Catalogue No. 1 THE SEARCH FOR SOMA, JULIO MARIO SANTO DOMINGO & HIS LSD LIBRARY, CARL WILLIAMS RARE BOOKS, CATALOGUE No. 1 THE SEARCH FOR SOMA, JULIO MARIO SANTO DOMINGO & HIS LSD LIBRARY, SOME DROPS FROM THE PRESS THE SEARCH FOR SOMA, JULIO MARIO SANTO DOMINGO & HIS LSD LIBRARY, SOME DROPS FROM THE PRESS CARL WILLIAMS RARE BOOks 63. CATALOGUE No.1 LSD Library in Thônex Jane and Louise Wilson Note that all of the items in this short The Dope catalogue came from a private library of altered states of consciousness Most of the stuff in this catalogue owned by the late Julio Mario Santo is original except where noted. Domingo. Mr Santo Domingo set up Dimensions are expressed as vertical a foundation and called the collection x horizontal axes. The Ludlow Santo Domingo Library or LSD Library, it was principally l – leaf. spread over a few floors at chemin du ll – leaves. Foron 16, Thônex, Switzerland and at p – page. his residence on Promenade Saint- pp – pages. Antoine, Genève, Avenue Montaigne, Recto – front side of a leaf. Paris, Ferme des Carneaux, Verso – back or reverse side of a leaf. Boigneville and possibly New York. Holograph – Handwritten. There was a part of his collection N.p. – no place. that after his death was ‘stranded’ in n.p. – no publisher. London. The bulk of those groups of n.d. – no date. material is now on long term deposit The LSD blotters are not ‘live’ at The Houghton and has been rolled do not call the drug squad. out into the entire library system of Prices are in pounds sterling Harvard University. not pre-decimal £sd. Do forgive the repetition of the The material has been left provenance throughout much of the as found in the LSD Library, catalogue text and the absence of it in Post its and all. the rest. Thanks to Ed Maggs and Gus Harding of Maggs Bros for entrusting these crumbs to my care. Jane and Louise Wilson R.A. generously supplied photos of the LSD Library in Thônex. 59. “He who tries to determine Awareness, that was inspired by the The signers included Nobel laureate everything by law will foment crime drug of the Hindu Rg Veda and the Francis Crick, The Beatles (with their rather than lessen it”. social mastic in Huxley’s Brave New gongs and manager Brian Epstein), World. He was encouraged by an Allen the ’60s New Left firebrand Tariq 1. [SOCIETY OF MENTAL Ginsberg article calling for a New Ali, anti-psychiatrists R.D. Laing AWARENESS]. Advertisement. York Times pro-dope advert signed and David Cooper, theatricals like the law against marijuana by 500 people and another 1966 one, Jonathan Miller and Peter Brooke, is immoral in principle and in the The Times, calling for peace in Pop Artists Richard Hamilton, David unworkable in practice. Vietnam (Jonathan Green - Days in Hockney, Patrick Prockter and Derek Offprint, first seperate edition. The Life). Boshier, politicians Tom Driberg 61 x 46 cm., in three columns, left and Jonathan Aitken, photographer column in a ruled box, the title in The immediate need for the David Bailey, Doctors Sam Hutt and a decorative box, printed in black on advertisement was the arrest and David Stafford-Clark, writer Graham white paper. With a copy of The Times charging of John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins on Greene and many others from public, in which it appeared. N.p. [London], December 30, 1966 for possession of artistic and scientific life. n.p. [ The Times/SOMA?], n.d., circa cannabis. Hopkins opted for a jury Monday July 24 1967. £650.00 trial to argue for decriminalisation The other two columns are the and was convicted and imprisoned for argument and the testimonials, the Old central horizontal fold, two nine months, six of which he served. first starts with a quotation from vertical folds, edges rumpled and The advertisement, which was paid Spinoza ending thus: nicked, closed tears on the top edges for by Paul McCartney, took up the of the vertical folds, lacks tips of entire front page of The Times which “He who tries to determine everything bottom corners. was chosen because the editor, by law will foment crime rather than William Rees Mogg had published an lessen it”. Very rare with no copies on Worldcat, editorial denouncing the recent arrest although there should be at least and conviction of Mick Jagger and The argument is that cannabis use one other copy in the Julio Mario Keith Richard for drug possession, is increasing, it could be taxed (citing Santo Domingo deposit (where this it was entitled Who Breaks a Butterfly The Lancet ), it doesn’t necessarily copy came from) at the Houghton on a Wheel? They were given very lead to heroin, legislation has held in the small Steve Abrams’ SOMA harsh sentences of three months back medical research and that it archive relating to the production and a year respectively, which were has become enmeshed in “deliberate of the advert. later quashed under a nosiy chorus sensationalism” and arrests have of disapproval from the gallery of merely exploited a “..moment of Exhibited in Summer of Love. public opinion. national anxiety” (quoting the famous Art of The Psychedelic Era, aforementioned Times editorial by Tate Liverpool, 2005. The left column or box is a list of Rees Mogg). signatories to a five point petition of One of rarest and most potent the Home Secretary to: “..permit and Moreover, policing breached civil artifacts of the sixties counterculture. encourage research into all aspects liberties and brought the law into The advert is curiously entangled with of cannabis use..” and that “Allowing disrepute. The advert also points to one part of The Establishment whilst the smoking of cannabis on private the widespread problem of abuse of tussling with the police, judiciary, premises should no longer constitute barbiturates, opiates etc and how legislature and Moral Majority. The an offence” with the recommendation the laws on cannabis hampered any open letter prompted a Parliamentary that “Cannabis should be taken off the solution to these social ills. This is discussion and possibly influenced the Dangerous Drugs List and controlled, followed by a series of quotations from quashing of Keith Richard’s conviction rather than prohibited, by a new ad medics, scientists and others such as for allowing cannabis to be smoked hoc instrument”. The fourth point Stafford Clark and Anthony Storr. in his home. Most importantly, it had is “Possession of cannabis should an affect on the findings of the 1968 either be legally permitted or at most 218695 Sub-Committee on Hallucinogens’ be considered a misdemeanour, conclusions, published as the Wooton punishable by a fine of not more than Report in 1969, which found that long £10 for a first offence and not more term cannabis use in moderation was than £25 for any subsequent offence” not particularly harmful. , the fifth point is “All persons now imprisoned for possession of cannabis Steve Abrams, the guiding spirit or for allowing cannabis to be smoked behind the letter, ran a drugs research on private premises should have their and pressure group called ‘SOMA’ sentences commuted”. , standing for Society for Mental “Dear Ma, ... If you should ever want Cohen and Bowen were both, in their larger event, based on the Rally Presumably replying to “Ma” ’s any LSD, let me know, as I have the singular ways, acid evangelists, the that drew in all of the psychedelic worries that he was too young to be finest available” former was heavily into Timothy superstars of the day such as Leary, experimenting with drugs, Towle Leary and “..took his cues from the Gary Snyder, Jerry Rubin and Allen stressed his depth of experience ( “I’ve 2. [COHEN (Allen)] & [BOWEN ex-Harvard professor who spoke in Ginsberg. Music was played, Lenore been at this for seven years now, and (Michael). A Prophecy of a clichés about acid as an evolutionary Kandel read her ’obscene’ book of have never felt better in my life” ) and Declaration of Independence. tool that could guarantee religious love and Owsley scattered vast his caution (“..in most everything I Original broadside. 35.5 x 21.6 cm., epiphanies” (p-149 Martin A. Lee & amounts of ’White Lightning’ LSD. do”) and how he would like to see her cannabis leaf device in double lined Bruce Shlain - Acid Dreams, try LSD. Like a classic evangelist he circle, ruling, text, with the first part The Complete Social History of LSD, Jack Towle was one of four founder offered her reading material, thus: printed in a box; all in green on white The Sixties, And Beyond, 1992). members of the original Family Dog, stock, verso with a 30 or so line typed a collective dedicated to all-night “Have you read the Life articles on letter from Family Dog co-founder Cohen, and his Oracle circle, saw the dance, that arose from the fact that, the subject?” Jack Towle to his mother, signed date on which LSD was scheduled to at the time in San Francisco, rhythmic ‘Jack’ on the foot in blue Biro. N.p. become illegal as deeply inauspicious. movement to music was illegal Towle stressed that “Anyone whose [San Francisco], n.p.[Oracle?], 1966. Their numerological view of reality without a permit. The Family Dog entire life has not been one of self- £2200.00 told them that October, 10, 1966 was staged events with people dancing deception can hardly help having a an augury, an apocalyptic sign that on psychedelic drugs, listening to wonderful trip” and went on to evoke Four old near invisible horizontal was “The mark of the ascension of the weird music, with great light shows Timothy Leary as an authority, thus: folds, very light endemic browning, beast”.
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