Scarlet Woman and the Beast scribble fiendishly in a drug book

“images of the [Indiana University Lilly Library] copy of Diary of a Drug Fiend. The annotations on these pages were done by ‘Scarlet Woman’ Leah Hirsig.”—thread by Rebecca Baumann

Hermetic Library Omnium Scarlet Woman and the Beast Scribble Fiendishly in a Drug Book 9mar2023 Scarlet Woman Leah Hirsig Annotations

“There are also sparser annotations by Crowley himself.”

Hermetic Library Omnium Scarlet Woman and the Beast Scribble Fiendishly in a Drug Book 9mar2023 Sparse Annotations Aleister Crowley

“The book is inscribed to book collector Montgomery Evans, whose correspondence with Crowley the library holds. My wife and I have been slowly working on transcribing their letters, hopefully for eventual publication.”

Hermetic Library Omnium Scarlet Woman and the Beast Scribble Fiendishly in a Drug Book 9mar2023 Inscribed to Montgomery Evans

This is about a physical copy of The Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley, with annotations by Crowley and Leah Hirsig (Alostrael) inscribed to book collector Montgomery Evans.