Dick/Dave
The Carpenter Collection is a massive manuscript collection of songs and stories collected in the US and the UK (mainly ballads from Scotland). It includes 20 odd 7" reel-to-reel tapes of the singers (often a couple of verses only of each song).
It is at present being worked on by Julia Bishop and others (Sheffield).
As I explained, Kennedy reviewed it for the Folk Song Journal and promptly put the tapes he had been sent (by me) up for sale in his catalogue.
That was how he got the ones that are presumably now for sale on Dick's catalogue.
Judge for yourself.
Jim Carroll