THE JOHN HISLOP LETTERS AGAIN
 

Date:  March 28 2005

By: Alexandra Nagel

To whom it concerns:

Robert Priddy has most certainly not invented the letters from Dr. John Hislop, as has been alleged by a devotee of Sai Baba on Yahoo groups. Scans of the letters from Hislop to Sathya Sai leaders were faxed to me on October 20, 2001 by Glen Meloy, as can be seen from the fax scan (below). All were heavily annotated either by him or someone else. (One letter is enough here to prove my point). Incidentally, the transcribed text of three of these four letters have already been on-line for several years on www.exbaba.com

 

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FURTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION - by ROBERT PRIDDY

For the sake of those who may wish to believe that the signatures on the Hislop letters are not genuine, ExBaba also here presents other signatures by Dr. John Hislop for eventual comparison with those on the letters already presented. This serves to help establish further the authenticity of the letters (in the minds of shocked believers and even some wilful and determined doubters!) The letters were photocopied Organisation headed notepaper, for reasons that seem all too obvious when one reads the contents about the need for extreme secrecy and destruction after reading (!) from a typewritten original - the standard method back in the early '80s. They were not on official Sai Organisation headed notepaper, for reasons that seem all too obvious when one reads the contents about the need for extreme secrecy and destruction after reading!

 

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One does not need to be a handwriting expert to see that ALL signatures are by the same person. For a start, compare the direction of the pen strokes and links between letters, the underlinings of his name. One would need to be a blindly trusting Sai devotee to doubt that all by one and the same hand. The last signature was probably made with a pen which was running out of ink! The letter it authenticates will be posted on ExBaba with due comments later. But the signature, though weak, is still recognisable. Also the word 'over' occurs in several of the letters, and the 'o' compares very well with the 'o' in Hislop's signature.