I think it may have been a copy from their stationery but not necessarily their actual stationery paper. With so many famous people having stayed there I wonder if there is a book somewhere with a letter from a famous person written on Oriental Hotel stationary. She could have just copied the top portion of the letter for the letterhead and added her fake reference letter to the bottom. Just an idea. Others have suggested she knew someone who went to Thailand and "borrowed" their paper to make her letter. That's possible as well I suppose but less likely, IMO. The typed letter was printed from a computer. The font and typed lines are too smooth and uniform distances to have been done with a typewriter. And speaking of printing letters, In 1988, who had printers you could just put in lose paper and print? Not very many places did, IIRC. A few businesses might have had fancy laser printers but not many. Most libraries had the old style dot-matrix printer paper like this:
https://recollectionsofplay.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/totally-80s-dot-matrix-printer-paper/ HP had a deskjet that printed individual sheets of paper but it cost $1000 in 1988:
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/hi...rinting/0019/index.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN I doubt she could have accessed that type of printer unless she was employed someplace that had one.
To get a paper like the reference letter she would have to print it then photo copy it onto the hotel letterhead, IMO. I wonder if any analysis of the ink was done to find out what kind of printer and what year it was printed? Probably not something in the budget of this case. It would be interesting to know when she concocted the Thailand letter of reference and who she showed the letter to to get a job or place to live.