[Hilaire Belloc on the Pyrenees.] Typed Letter Signed ('H Belloc.') to Mrs Strutt, giving details of two examples of 'a perfectly quiet and small place in the Pyranees [sic] which other people don't yet know'.

1p., 4to. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The letter carries a few autograph emendations and postscript. With envelope addressed to Mrs Strutt at 12 Somers Place, London. Belloc was an accomplished travel writer, and had published his classic book 'The Pyrenees' in 1903. He writes that he is giving her 'two addresses', 'only in each case you must write to the people before going there and the sooner the better, because the Season in these high places is very short'. (He adds in autograph 'Up to, say, Sept 30'.) 'Each has a great torrent, each is quite small and comfortable and clean and cheap (ask prices before you go) But of the two Gabas is the best [s]uited to English people because it has ample woods around it and much larger mountains, and is right off the railway.' He describes the two addresses in some detail, with such comments as 'Personally I prefer to break the journey in two nights' and 'There is a gap of two miles for which you will have to hire a vehicle across the Spanish frontier.' Of one journey he writes: 'Whatever you do don't stop at Dax on the way.', adding in autograph 'It is detestable.' Mrs Strutt was a leading member of London Roman Catholic high society.