Idea Better:
After consulting with Brad Westwood, Dr. Burton's friend who works now for the Church doing special collections stuff, but used to do that at BYU, I have a few more ideas a whole lot of good details to make this sound legit. I have awesome notes with a couple of his different ideas, but for the sake of time and progress, for now I'm just going to put up my favorite that I vote we use as the story of discovery. So how's this?
During WWI and WWII in England, old aristocracy had incredible, really old family libraries with lots of original manuscripts. As the fell on hard times with the war, many of these libraries were sold off wholesale; Americans with wealth (from the Guilded Age in the 1880s to the depression) would buy these libraries. There were large estate sales where series of manuscripts were sold off. they could have easily been inventoried and misidentified..."Its still possible that they could have stuff...not discovered." (I got tons of quotes like this from him we could use in an interview or something.) So all this rich English literature ends up in the US. We're still treading on the non-fiction so far. Huntington Library, in Pasadena, CA is a private library founded by a guy who loved horticulture and literature, and from what I understand from Bro. Westwood, aquired large amounts from British libraries in the "rape of Europe" as he called it. At this library, they have a huge backlog of "elephant size books", many of which have not been opened in a long time...like maybe even since they came over from England. All of this is fact. So here's the story: in a cache of 17th century books, there is an elephant portfolio on horticulture with a duplicate set; the duplicate has been left in the vault. A horticulture curator (Dan Sagen) going through the one left out notices some missing plates, and pulls out the duplicate to consult. He finds some literature that obviously doesn't go in a horticulture book...its in iambic pentameter, and appears to be some plays, or something...he contacts the manuscript section and hands it over to them. The manuscripts are just sections of paper bound together with red fabric, tied through 2 holes in the top (typical for manuscripts of the time.) The ink is from a quill pen on handmade stationary, of the kind used by gentlemen back in the day. Red pen marks from editing litter the manuscript; handwriting experts find that it is from some undetermined hand that matches the hand of edit marks on a known manuscript--someone who worked closely with Shakespeare on other plays. The ink is tested for mineral content, carbon test done on the ink and paper, UV light tests, all done--results match that of other Shakespeare original manuscripts at the time. It's breaking news! And soon I'll have a news story for it. That can go on our YouTube Channel. Along with all the other awesome videos that result from this discovery. It's such a legit story, we might not even need any doubters! What think ye? https://sites.google.com/site/firstfauxlio/story---documentary/story-of-discovery
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