Testimonial letter from Michael Mollett

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This letter is one of a remarkable series of over 2650 letters amassed in 1983 to support Osho's attempt to get permanent resident status in the US at the time of the Oregon ranch. The image is reproduced here with the kind permission of The Oregon Historical Society. Information about their collection of these letters and other supporting material -- the "Jeffrey Noles Rajneesh Collection", named for Osho's immigration lawyer Jeffrey Noles, who compiled them in 1983 and donated them to the OHS -- can be found at this page. The wiki is grateful to the OHS for making access available for these documents. For more information and links to all the letters, see Testimonial letters.

This letter is from Michael Mollett. It is "Exhibit A-989" in the Noles collection.

The text version below has been created by optical character recognition (OCR), from the images supplied by OHS. It has not been checked for errors but this process usually results in over 99% correct transcription. Most apparent "errors" are correct transcriptions of typos already in the original. The image on the right in the text box links to a pdf file of the original letter, it has one page.

2624 W 7th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90057
July 12, 1983

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

I am an artist and a gardener in Los Angeles. I have heard that there is a problem with Rajneesh being in our country, and I am writing in support of his being allowed to stay here. I am not a participant in his movement, but having met some of his followers I feel it would be a tremendous loss to lose his presence, especially in these times of violence and lack of love. I feel he is making a contribution towards world peace through compassion.

Thank you very much.

Yours truly,
[signed]
Michael Mollett


(Please note: We assume that the above letter is still copyrighted, but we regard its historical interest to constitute a Fair Use exception for publication in this wiki.)