Item DEAN 3/4/7 - Correspondence with Sir Folliott Sandford, 1973-1977, on the history of the RAF

Correspondence between Dean and Sir Folliott Herbert Sandford on personal matters and also relating to Dean's work on the history of the RAF; particularly Churchill and the pre war air expansion programme, ACM Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding and his meeting with the War Cabinet in May or June 1941, Prof Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Professor of Physics, Manchester University and his advisory role at the Admiralty during World War Two. With a memorandum to Secretary of State for Air, Philip Cunliffe-Lister Swinton, Viscount Swinton regarding the proposal for a second Parliamentary Under Secretary of State; photocopy of Sandford's appointment book / diary for 1937; Sandford's comments on Dean's text of The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979); request by Dean for information on Philip Cunliffe-Lister Swinton, 1st Earl of Swinton and typescript account of anecdote involving Swinton in 1956. 1 file