Talk:Letters to Anandmayee
The letters Osho wrote to Anandmayee have several recurring features which are noted in the table below so as to discern any patterns. Potential patterns revolve around a few things:
- 1. Blue numbers in circles are found in most letters so far. Some of them also have a red tick mark in the upper left area above the salutation. It is not known who wrote these numbers, when or why.
- 2. Dates: File numbers of letters with known dates so far are in chronological order. It may be that the undated ones appear in that same chronological order, amongst them.
- 3. The "115" in the Mahakoshal / Yogesh Bhavan letterhead is handwritten, and is actually missing in some letters.
- 4. Watermark Some letters have a watermark, "JUPITER BOND", in ALL-CAPS, with "JUPITER" arcing over "BOND". Last letter "D" is stylized.
File # | Date | Blue # | "115" | notes and comments | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
786 | 22 Nov 1960 | none | no | Y | no "blue #" in circle but a black "no. 1" upper center |
787 | undated 001 | 2 | yes | N | has a watermark, but backward, as if printed on Verso |
788 | 25 Nov 1960 | 3 | yes | ---- | different letterhead |
789 | 29 Nov 1960 | 4 | no | Y | |
790 | undated 002 | 5 | yes | Y | |
791 | 8 Dec 1960 | 5 | no | N | same number 5 as 790 |
792 | 15 Dec 1960 pm | 6 | yes | Y | has a pale blue "7" without a circle in the middle (it looks as footprint from other sheet) in addition to its "6", + has a watermark |
793 | 15 Dec 1960 om | 6 | no | Y | same remarks as 792 but has no watermark, nb written EARLIER than 792 |
794 | 27 Dec 1960 | yes | N | but the "blue 5" is scratched out, and the red tick is on the right side, not the left | |
795 | 3 Jan 1961 | none | yes | N | date on top, pale blue "6" (no circle) in middle top, and red tick is on the right side |
796 | 4 Jan 1961 | none | no | N | no marks except an undecipherable pale blue one middle right. "Appendix" format whereby all three family members addressed separately? Has a watermark, backward. |
798 | 2? Feb 1961 am | none | no | N | no marks except a pale blue scribble middle top. "Postscript" only format, addressing two unreadable names. "2?" signifies twenty-something. ** |
799 | 28 Feb 1961 xm | none | no | N | no marks except a pale blue scribble middle top, very similar to 798's scribble. Addressed only to Anandmayee. |
800 | undated 003 | none | yes | N | no marks except a red tick right top, signed only with "xxx" |
801 | 10 Jan 1961 | none | no | N | no marks at all, unaddressed. The first to be "out of order" chronologically with respect to file number. |
802 | 26 Jan 1961 | none | no | N | only mark is a small pale blue group, meaning unknown. Sent from Sagar, Republic Day acknowledged. |
803 | 18 Jan 1961 xm | none | no | N | only marks are a vertical line of small pale blue marks, meaning unknown. "Out of order" chronologically. |
804 | 30 Jan 1961 am | none | yes | N | has a red tick mark, a pale blue number (not in a circle), "39", and a watermark. |
805 | 30 Jan 1961 om | none | no | N | has only a watermark, no greeting, only a PS |
806 | 7 Feb 1961 xm | none | no | N | has a couple of pale blue figures of unknown meaning and a watermark |
Sarloji, my proposal for undated letter is to keep them in guessed period, i.e. to put them near by known letters. E.g. Undated Letter written to Anandmayee 001 to Timeline 1960. Or will we cut off guessed period and to put them to Timeline year unknown?--DhyanAntar 06:48, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
New organization of the data above keeps them arranged in file # order, so it's easy to keep track. The undated ones can go in Timeline year unknown, actually MUST go there, but there they can have the year as "1960?" or whatever year /month their dated adjacent file #s have. The blue numbers may eventually assist in pointing toward their place in the chrono order. Or may not. -- doofus-9 07:55, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
And the blue numbers and red ticks keep getting weirder and more chaotic. Hard to imagine they will ever point to something systematic. -- doofus-9 06:33, 8 November 2019 (UTC)