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ALS signed "Love, Bear," one page on a 5.5 x 4 postcard depicting Australian animals, no date. Handwritten letter to "Alice & the Mob," in full: "Hi. Sydney is a very interesting city—among many other delights that this continent has to offer." Also includes two handwritten letters by his wife, Sheilah, plus two matchbooks and a napkin from their wedding, which took place on October 8, 1995. In overall fine condition.
Augustus Owsley Stanley III (1935–2011), known simply as "Owsley" or "Bear," was the legendary underground chemist, sound engineer, and counterculture icon who became the first private individual to manufacture LSD on a mass scale, producing an estimated 1.25 million doses between 1965 and 1967. A self-taught audio visionary, he served as the Grateful Dead's longtime sound engineer and financial patron, essentially bankrolling the band in their early years and pioneering concert sound reinforcement technology that transformed live music production. His singular influence on the psychedelic movement, the San Francisco music scene, and American counterculture cemented his status as one of the most mythologized and consequential figures of the 1960s.
From the personal Grateful Dead collection of Alice Giblin.
