It was going too far to say, as we did in a report, Murder in the name of art, page 5, March 28, that "William Burroughs ... shot his wife just for the hell of it". Ann Charters in her biography of Kerouac (1974), said: "Bill ... accidentally shot his wife through the head. He and Joan had been playing William Tell in a friend's apartment with a gun and a glass on Joan's head ... Burroughs ... missed the target and killed his wife." It was ruled to be accidental.

A note to exonerate John Redwood from responsibility for the ungrammatical headline on his contribution to page 22 of yesterday's Guardian. The heading began "To we Conservatives ..." It should, of course, have begun, "To us Conservatives, Labour looks etc".

We gave the wrong number for those seeking tickets for the Kelly McGillis masterclass at the National Film Theatre, London, tonight. It should have been 020-7928 3232.

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