Testimonial letter from Robin Orr
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 Robin Orr. It is "Exhibit A-961" 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.
 Professor Robin Orr, C.B.E., Mus.D., LL.D., F.R.C.M. To whom it may concern Whilst I am in no way associated with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh I had the opportunity over a period of several days at Poona in India of observing his work at the Ashram there. It became clear that he possesses intellectual and artistic qualities of an exceptionally high order. By any standards he must be reckoned a remarkable man and I hope very much that he may be given the status he seeks in the United States of America. [signed] |
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