2 JUNE 1990, Page 26

Feting Dumfries

Sir: D. A. Yerrill (Letters, 26 May) sells Dumfries short. He is not the only Dum- fries reader. There's me, and there's the poet (published) I talk to in the pub.

Incidentally, Saturday 16 June is our big day, when the marches are ridden and a schoolgirl is symbolically crowned Queen of the South. Perhaps one of your writers might care to observe Dumfries en fete. Jack Johnstone

47 Albert Road, Dumfries