NapierTown-2 Letterhead

Osho lived in Yogesh Bhavan, 115, Napier Town in Jabalpur, for some eight years, leaving sometime in mid-1968. Many letterheads were used during this time, almost all showing this address but most also emphasizing other features besides the plain address, so they have been put in different categories. There were the Mahakoshal group (example), featuring his teaching position at Mahakoshal Arts College, the group introducing his org Jeevan Jagriti Kendra (example), and so on.

In all there were five "pure" Napier Town letterheads. This was the second. See the main Letterheads page for all his letterheads, and a discussion of their differences.

In its information content, this is a fairly simple letterhead, with all content in Devanagari script in the upper left corner:

Acharya Rajneesh (running vertically and)

115, Napier Town
Jabalpur (M. P.) (horizontally)

The feature that makes it not so simple is the outrageous, spiky, almost messy font for "Acharya Rajneesh". This font for his name can be seen in an earlier letterhead, Mahakoshal-3 -- their periods of use have a small overlap -- and, more curiously, on a couple of early book covers, images right. These small books (booklets, really) have been tentatively estimated to have been published in 1961 and 1965, but the similarity of their pictures of Osho and their use of this unusual font make it likely that one or both estimates are in error, with possibly both closer to 1963-ish.

Fourteen letters were written using this letterhead, almost all to Ma Anandmayee, with exceptions and publication info noted where applicable. Regarding pub info, Bhavna refers to the 2002 Diamond edition of Bhavna Ke Bhojpatron Par Osho (भावना के भोजपत्रों पर ओशो), with page numbers noted. Kranti refers to Krantibeej (क्रांतिबीज), with chapter numbers noted:

Letter written on 25 Jul 1963, published in Jeevan-Darshan (जीवन दर्शन) (letters) #7, Kranti #12 and later in Bhavna, p 233-234

Letter written on 10 Aug 1963 am, to Deriya Ji, published in translation in Sw Ageh Bharti's book Beloved Osho

Letter written on 15 Aug 1963, published in Jeevan-Darshan (जीवन दर्शन) (letters) #10, Kranti #18 and later in Bhavna, p 236 (with PS omitted)

Letter written on 28 Aug 1963, published in Kranti #47 and later in Bhavna, p 239-240

Letter written on 3 Sep 1963, to Rajendranath Tripathi (letter page has links to other letters to RT)

Letter written on 15 Sep 1963, published in Bhavna, p 243

Letter written on 27 Sep 1963 om, published in Jeevan-Darshan (जीवन दर्शन) (letters) #1, Kranti #3 and later in Bhavna, p 249 (with PS omitted)

Letter written on 28 Sep 1963, to Rajendranath Tripathi (letter page has links to other letters to RT)

Letter written on 9 Nov 1963, published in Bhavna, p 245

Letter written on 19 Nov 1963 am, published in Bhavna, p 244

Letter written on 22 Nov 1963, published in Bhavna, p 246

Letter written on 1 Dec 1963, published in Bhavna, p 247 (with PS omitted)

Letter written on 16 Dec 1963 am, published in Bhavna, p 248

Letter written on 10 Jan 1964, to Rajendranath Tripathi (letter page has links to other letters to RT)