Item DEAN 3/3/3 - Correspondence, 1945-1964, with Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, chiefly personal, but including discussion of the events of World War Two

Correspondence between Dean and ACM Sir Arthur Travers Harris mostly of a personal nature including proposed visits between the two families; the historian Anthony Verrier and his proposed study on Bomber Command; Harris' eligibility for a pension; a correspondence between Harris and Mountbatten regarding the Dieppe raid, Aug 1942 which Harris was planning to use in preparation for a libel case; note by John Fraser Mayne, Air Ministry on the Bomber Command's role in the Dieppe raid with an extract from the Bomber Command narrative prepared in the Air Historical Branch of the Air Ministry, 1950; correspondence relating to Harris' visit to England for the coronation in 1953. With related correspondence between Harris and Sir James Barnes, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Air; memoranda between Barnes and Permanent Secretary E Hall relating to Harris's complaint that he had been omitted from official functions related to the Coronation; memoranda from Stephen Martin Lanigan O'Keefe, Office of the High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia relating to Harris's visit to Southern Rhodesia, 1945; memoranda between various government departments concerning the possibility that Harris could be offered the governorship of the Isle of Man; two copies of a note on Harris prepared by the Air Historical Branch of the Air Ministry on Harris' death in 1964; an enclosure from Air Ministry file no.S39032 by Harris writing in support of a proposal by Vickers Ltd for the production of a special six-engined heavy bomber. 1 file