Dear Sir,
While I was in port on the Tuscan coast on the occasion of a navigation in the Mediterranean Sea, I acquired from a local merchant a series of drawings and maps that seemed to lead to a treasure. .
I got them for a few coins, I hope it was a good investment.
These documents are not accompanied by any context: no letter, no trace of any owner. The merchant himself had obtained them from a bookseller who had no idea of their origin. He sold them to me thinking they were more illustrations for a novel.
They appear to have been written by someone who found a treasure and then, for some unspecified reason, moved it elsewhere. These documents first show the former location of the chest, where the author apparently only left the chest's key, then indications of where it was moved. He would have hidden it in a building, under a slab. I have studied all this for a long time, but I lack the knowledge and ideas to make the connection between the first drawings, which represent a bust and a painting, and the islands which are represented in the other documents. He speaks of this treasure as being that of a queen. Why will someone bury a treasure elsewhere instead of keeping it? This is the main reason that can make me doubt the veracity of this story. He probably had his reasons, perhaps we will never know, if that is all true!
If you help me figure this out, we'll share any discoveries. The documents contain a little Italian, but nothing too insurmountable for a foreigner.
Hoping you can help me,
Georges