I WAS intrigued with your article about Sargent and the Millets (Journal, November 23).

My grandfather was an acquaintance of the Millets, an American family, who came and settled in Broadway.

Mr Millet was an artist and as a child I remember seeing in a magazine a picture of his Between two fires.

It consisted of two gentlemen dining with two ladies serving them.

I understand one of the ladies was a Broadway girl.

He was renowned for the painting of intricate lace table clothes.

Mr and Mrs Millet were passengers on the ill-fated Titanic and lost their lives.

At a party prior to sailing Mr Millet was asked if he felt any fear of going on the maiden voyage.

His reply was: "The Titanic was as safe as the Bank of England."

The children did not go with them but were left in Broadway.

I assume they returned to America after the tragedy.

I later remember their son Jack being brought by a Miss Dorothy Barnard to visit my grandfather, who collected me from school to meet him.

He was by now a doctor practising in America.

I heard him talk of a sister Kate.

RUTH WHITEHOUSE, Shinehill Lane, South Littleton.