I put this on the other thread about source singers but it probably belongs here:

I'd like to hear kytrad's assessment of John Jacob Niles as a 'collector'.
How 'ethical' was he (sublime performance excepted)?

Also quite unconnnected, Kenny Goldstein had me looking after his correspondence in the weeks before his arrival in the UK in about 1968. He gave me a large bottle of bath oil as recompense. I think that must have been in one of my particularly scruffy hippy phases. How 'ethical' was this? (i.e. did he get it from the Body Shop?)