I see I caused some unnecessary confusion, sorry for that.

The point is that Samuelson disclosed his identity to the author of
the two articles. He also sent the full reports to him, due to the
fact, that the papers reviewed were very relevant to Samuelsons own
work, and Samuelson positively reviewed them. The mentioned author
lost the physical copies, that's why we know who was the reviewer and
- vaguely and from memory - what was in the reports.

That's the only reason of my inquiry. If you agree with the system of
peer-review it would of course be a travesty if we got to the reviews
so fast, and the JHET archives are closed for 50 years.

So again, sorry for the confusion and I hope in this context my
question about the whereabouts of Samuelsons is less "horrifying".

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2011/10/5 Gary Mongiovi <[log in to unmask]>:
> I agree. I wonder whether there are any generally accepted conventions concerning the publication of passages extracted from referee reports. It is not only the referee who might be compromised by the publication of such remarks, but also the not-always-anonymous author of the paper being refereed, who can come in for some pretty rough treatment.
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> As an editor, I would be extremely hesitant to publish any part of a referee report that was less than a quarter of a century old, and I could easily be persuaded that the cut-off ought to be fifty years. A possible exception might be a passage that conveyed the scientific views of the ref, independently of the content of the paper being reffed, and that contained no info that might identify the paper under review.
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> As an editor I am a little horrified by the idea that referee reports from as recently as 2004/2005 should be readily available, whether their author is with us or not.  The system of peer evaluation relies on confidentiality, and while ultimately such reports might become fodder for historians, having them come available so soon would undermine the system of peer review.
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> On 10/5/2011 11:46 AM, Stanislaw Kwiatkowski wrote:
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> Dear list,
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> I'm trying to track down a couple of reports Samuelson wrote as a
> reviewer for the Journal of History of Economic Thought. I know as a
> fact, that he did a couple reviews in 2004/2005. But the
> Samuelson-JHET correspondence file ends in 2002.
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> Any ideas if there are other places, that have parts of Samuelsons files?
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> The updated Duke inventory is attached - the online version is outdated.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Stan Kwiatkowski,
> Poland
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