Mistake was mine

• ROBIN Young is alas right to correct John Gulliver but it was I who must admit to being the inaccurate source of Jeremy Thorpe’s adapted guilt (Letters, January 14).
Nothing original, by the way, in kicking your friend when he is down. John Gulliver I know will not kick me. His legendary memory and powers of forgiveness are well known in the inky world of journalism. Mea culpa.
ILLTYD HARRINGTON,
The Savile Club,
Brook Street, W1