Testimonial letter from N. M. Edinburg

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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 N. M. Edinburg. It is "Exhibit A-1049" 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.

PG Industries
PG Industries Limited
formery
Plate Glass Trading Division
(Pty) Limited
PG Centre
cnr. Janie and Main Street
Jeppestown
Johannesburg 20(?)
2352
Johannesburg 20(?)
(011) 618-1640/52
8-4034 SA
20th July 1983.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is the first enlightened Master whose message has helped me in my day to day living. I have not been in His Presence. I have read 5 of His books printed from his spoken word. I feel he gives a word of advice on every page. He certainly brings Peace to me and my family.

[signed]
N. M. EDINBURG
ENGINEER
Directors: B Lubner (Executive Chairman), L A H Cohen, S Derman, P J Lavies, R Lubner, J R McAtpine (British) D G Raeburn (British), M Rapp, K B G Schey (Netherlands), F B Sher


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