15 Mar 2011

Daniel Defoe manuscripts discovered in pub?

While Stockwell Arms, in Colchester’s Dutch Quarter was being renovated the builders discovered some manuscripts written with a quill pen under the floorboards of the 14th century pub:


"Mr Morgan is sending the fragmented manuscripts off to a museum to be assessed by experts, because he believes they may have been written by Robinson Crusoe author, Daniel Defoe, who is rumoured to have lived there in the 1700s."


http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/8880306.Has_revamp_of_old_pub_unearthed_priceless_Defoe_find_/