Scope and Contents The diary covers the period May 1900 to July 1901. It was given to P D James in 2000 by a keen reader of her work, who had noted from ‘Time to be in Earnest’ that PDJ was ‘interested in old diaries’, as ‘a very small return for the many hours of pleasure your books continue to give me’. The correspondence is dated July - September 2000. The diary gives daily comment on the weather, together with a note of Joseph Saywell’s daily work and activities, visits and reactions to events and...