REGARDING the letter from Peter Walmsley in The Citizen, Thursday, May 23. It was not so much the life story of Robert Service, as praising Preston for becoming a city.

According to his autobiography, he was born in Winckley Square opposite a park, and the house was quite large, like a mansion.

I did say he was a poet and he wrote quite a few novels, and the museum you referred to in Dawson City is only half of the original. Mr Service also spent some time in San Francisco, so San Francisco wanted the museum to settle the conflict. The cabin was cut in half, and half stayed in the Yukon, and half was sent to the States.

I hope this letter satisfies Mr Walmsley as I think I knew a little more than the one fact Mr Walmsley attributes to me.

Miss A Latham, British Columbia, Canada.