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Private correspondence between ACM Sir Arthur Travers Harris and MRAF Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, Chief of Air Staff, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Bomber Command regarding their differences of opinion over whether bombing attacks should be concentrated on oil and chemical supplies or on industrial centres and major cities. 1 file

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

The collection consists primarily of master copies and research papers for Dean's book on the RAF, The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979). The research papers contain Dean's correspondence on aspects of RAF history with leading RAF personnel of the period before and during World War Two, in particular with ACM Sir Arthur Travers Harris with comments by him on the text of Dean's book, particularly on sections relating to Bomber Command. There is also a correspondence between Harris and MRAF Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal over the issue of bombing targets. Also included are extensive research notes from Public Record Office files and from secondary sources. The collection includes a paper written by Dean on dynamics and optics, 1928; papers relating to the development of airships and the crash of the R101 airship dating from Dean's initial period at the Air Ministry, 1929-1943; texts of lectures and seminars relating to the Civil Service given by Dean at the University of Strathclyde and other colleges and entries and related papers compiled by Dean for the Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, Oxford).

Typescript of biography by Dean of ACM Sir Cyril Louis Norton Newall for Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, Oxford). With letter to Dean from Sir Ronald Henry Melville (secretary to Newall at the time of the Munich agreement, Sep 1938) with note on its context by Dean and a copy of the biography. 1 file

Typescript of biography by Dean of ACM Sir (Alfred) Guy (Roland) Garrod for Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, Oxford). 4pp

Duplicate master copy of The Royal Air Force and Two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979) photocopy of typescript master copy and identical at the time of Dean's death but without any minor editorial notes or corrections made in preparing final text for the printers or the index. 1 file

Letter from Air Cdre Francis Rodwell Banks relating to William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Minister for aircraft production, 1940-1942 and his contribution to the Air Ministry. With a photocopied extract from Banks' autobiography relating to Beaverbrook. 1 file

Letters to Dean from Alfred Conrad Collier from Moscow, USSR where he was head of the Air Section of the British Military Mission to Moscow and from Delhi where he was Air Officer in charge of administration, Army Headquarters, mostly relating to his isolated position in Moscow due to the Russians reluctance to liase with the mission; Russian bureaucracy; treatment by the Russians, living conditions in Moscow, frustration at his inactivity and lack of involvement in World War Two and his intention to work in civil aviation after the war. 1 file

Alphabetical list of subjects covered in research for The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979) with references to sources used. 1 file

Manuscript notes by ACM Sir Arthur Travers Harris and correspondence between him and Dean relating to the text of Dean's book The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979) with Dean's notes on these comments. With letter from Rt Hon Brendan Bracken 1st Viscount Bracken of Christchurch to Harris relating to the award of his Baronetcy; typescript of the inscription in the book Spandau, the secret diaries by Albert Speer translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston (Collins, London, 1976) presented to Harris by Albert Speer, Reichsminister of Armaments and War Production, 1943-1945 which discusses the effect of the Bomber Command raids on Germany; notes by Harris on Bomber Command and its contribution to the defeat of Germany in World War Two; correspondence between Dean and Harris relating to Rt Hon. (Evelyn) John (St Loe) Strachey, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry, 1945-1946, his political ideology and possible role in preventing Harris' peerage; typescript of speech by Harris to the B[omber] C[ommand] AO regarding post-war attempts to discredit the contribution of Bomber Command after World War Two, 1 Jun 1974. 1 file

Typescript notes by Sir Christopher (Llewellyn) Bullock on his years at the Air Ministry, Sep 1946; Press cuttings of obituary of Bullock and letters relating to his life and career; letter to the editor of The Times by Dean on Bullock Jun 1972 ; programmes for memorial services for Bullock, 1972; manuscript draft letter to The Times (not by Dean). 1 file

Paper written by Dean at Trinity College, Cambridge on variational methods of general dynamics and optics. Manuscript, 51pp

Letter sent to Dean from AVM Oswyn George William Gifford Lywood and letter from Hilda Lywood, wife of from AVM Oswyn George William Gifford Lywood after Lywood's death; extract of a copy of Lywood's service record; obituary of Lywood from Flight, 15 Feb 1957; list of significant dates in Lywood's life; list of Air Ministry files containing information on Lywood; typescript text of speech by Lywood entitled 'Success to Newcastle on Tyne's future air policy' relating to the growing importance of aircraft in war and in civil aviation and promoting the creation of an aerodrome on the town moor outside the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne and its potential as a commercial flying centre; typescript autobiography by Lywood. 1 file

Papers relating to the R101 airship disaster, 1930, including, telegram to Dean from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; copy of the Pilot's report on the endurance flight of the R101 on which Dean was a passenger; The Air Force Department Society Journal, no.6, May 1966 containing Dean's article 'The loss of the airship 101' and duplicate copy of the article; Report of the R101 inquiry (HMSO, London, 1931); printed text of a lecture on 'the airship: a technical history' by E Mowforth, lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Surrey at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Nov 1973; 'R101 and other airships-the process of development' by Wg Cdr Thomas Reginald Cave-Browne-Cave, reprint from The Royal Aeronautical Society, vol.66, Aug 1962; note by Dean 'for record' on a recording made for Granada Television on the R101, 1967 and related correspondence; correspondence relating to the R101 with Cave-Browne-Cave, Sir Peter Gordon Masefield, Wg Cdr Ralph S Booth, Peter John Hudson, Ministry of Defence. With 8 photographs of the R101. 1 file

Papers produced by Air Historical Branch of the Air Ministry relating to aircraft spinning and in particular the legend of Dr Frederick Alexander Lindemann (later 1st Viscount Cherwell of Oxford) and his pre-1916 experiments on 'spinning'. With articles 'the spin' by Wg Cdr Norman Macmillan in Aeronautics, Jul 1960; 'spins and things' by Frank T Courtney in Aeronautics Nov 1961; 'Lindemann's work on aerodynamics' by Sir William Scott Farren. 1 file

Air Ministry News Service bulletins, Sep 1945 issued to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Britain, Jul-Oct 1940; press cuttings on various subjects, 1961-1975 including the conflict over bombing policy between Dr Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell of Oxford, personal assistant to the Prime Minister, 1940 and Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, Chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence; press cuttings, 1974-1977 relating to the Battle of Britain, including reviews of books on the battle; press cuttings relating to MRAF Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton; press obituaries 1974-1977 of Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, ACM Sir John Wakeling Baker, Professor Lord Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Professor of Physics, London University, ACM Hon Sir Ralph Alexander Cochrane, ACM Sir Basil Edward Embry, Sir Horace Ernest Philip Wigglesworth, Group Capt Stuart Douglas Culley, AVM Forster Herbert Martin Maynard, Sir Donald Banks, Gen Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, ACM Sir Keith Rodney Park, Sir James Barnes, ACM Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt, Sir Walter Pretty, ACM Sir John (Walter) Cordingley; press cuttings of reviews of books about World War Two and / or the RAF including reviews of Winston Churchill compiled by Martin Gilbert (Jackdaw Publications, London, 1969) with copies of correspondence from 1976 between Martin Gilbert and Sir Folliott Herbert Sandford regarding Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's sources of information at the Air Ministry before World War Two; photocopies from and relating to Bodyguard of lies by Anthony Cave Brown (WH Allen, London, 1976); press cuttings of reviews of From apes to warlords [the autobiography of Solly Zuckerman] (Hamilton, London, 1978); press cuttings from 1977 and notes on ENIGMA and ULTRA intelligence; press cuttings, 1976-1977 relating to the German air raid on Coventry, Nov 1941 and the extent that ULTRA Intelligence could have been used in its defence; press cuttings and notes on Most secret war by Reginald Victor Jones (Coronet, Sevenoaks, 1979) and the BBC's broadcast 'The secret war', Jan 1977; press cuttings of newspaper correspondence relating to Stanley Baldwin, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, rearmament and the 1935 General Election. 1 file