4 SEPTEMBER 1953, Page 21

By the Dordogne

SIR,--Having just returned from an all-too-brief visit to the Dordogne district, I feel I must write a line to say how very grateful the members of our family party are for Miss Freda White's delightful article on this delectable country which appeared in the Spectator of July 3rd.

We had decided on the trip long before (and had booked our rooms well in advance), but that article whetted our appetites and, as it was our first visit, though we hope not our last, we found it most helpful in planning our excursions. What a wonderful country it is, with its wealth of places of beauty and of interest, so charmingly depicted by Miss White. Cities, churches, castles, caves—we loved them all, but I am not sure that my own happiest memories will not be of two evening walks along the bank of the Vtizere, where it flows between poplar-lined meadows on the one side and great