The file includes:
Letter from the Prime Minister informing PDJ of his intention to submit her name for the New Year’s honours list, 30 November 1990;
Letters of congratulation from other members of the House of Lords, 1990-91;
Letters concerning formalities relating to the peerage and PDJ’s initial decision to sit on the cross benches;
List of guests for a lunch held before the introduction of Baroness James of Holland Park on 19 February 1991;
Letters of congratulation on her maiden speech in the House, 1991.
The file also contains:
Newspaper cartoon by Austin headed ‘Anything by P D James? I love a titled title’ [1991];
Daily Telegraph front page 31 December 1990 with article on PDJ’s peerage and a photograph;
Correspondence with the College of Arms concerning the creation of PDJ’s coat of arms, 1991-2, including a colour sketch by Sir Colin Cole, Garter Principal King of Arms;
‘Lines to Lady P D James’, compiled by M Blamey (‘self-appointed ‘Poet to Mr Speaker’ ‘), and related correspondence, 1991;
Correspondence concerning PDJ’s move to the Conservative benches and her election to membership of the Association of Conservative Peers in 1996;
Correspondence concerning the House of Lords Appointments Commission 2006-7;
Letters from the Government Chief Whip, 2010-11;
Correspondence and papers concerning the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, 2010.