Gotta agree with Dave on that last point. Archives OUGHT to be keenly sought after and protected as part of our national heritage, but try and get someone - anyone - other than a private collector to take a custodial role.

I was asked to find a home for an important and fascinating (non-folkie) archive a few years ago. The university I worked for wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, and nor would any other "appropriate organisation", including the Museum of the Moving Image and several other similar worthy bodies. Too expensive, too time-consuming, too much of a headache. Most museums, for instance, can only ever make available to the public about a TENTH of the stuff in their collections. The rest gathers dust in basements.

So the archive I was offered is still mouldering in some containers in London - what hasn't already gone to America to be sold off privately, that is.

The Kennedy stuff OUGHT to stay in the UK. It OUGHT to be valued and appropriately curated.

Whether it can/will be is another matter.