The tapes had been lost but the first sixty pages typed from them were available as were the scrawling, note and marginalia-filled, pages of longhand. Academic Vice-President of the Mises Institute Joseph Salerno approached him to possibly translate Rothbard's longhand notes and edit the fifth volume.
The tapes containing Rothbard's work had been lost, but sixty typed pages were recovered along with his handwritten notes and marginalia.  Joseph Salerno, Academic Vice-President of the Mises Institute, approached the individual to potentially translate Rothbard's handwritten notes and edit the fifth volume.