G. K. Chesterton devoted a whole chapter of his autobiography to his friendship with Hilaire Belloc. Entitled “Portrait of a Friend”, the chapter describes Belloc as “the man of letters I happen to know best” and praises him for being a journalist who “has produced nothing but literature”. Following Chesterton’s death, Belloc wrote a slim volume entitled On the Place of Gilbert Chesterton in English Letters, in which he praised the legacy of his great friend and greatest intellectual ally. Such was the closeness of their relationship, in which they seemed to see eye to eye on almost every subject, that George Bernard Shaw quipped that they were two halves of the same fantastic beast which he dubbed the Chesterbelloc.