THE details of one of the final letters of a Broadway-based artist who was a victim of the Titantic tragedy have been revealed as part of a season of television programmes on the world’s most famous ship.

Worcestershire County Council’s Record Office has released passages from the letter of Frank Millet, who owned Abbot’s Grange and lived at Russell House in the 1880s.

The correspondence, which featured on Monday night’s episode of The Mission on Channel 4, was sent by the American artist and journalist to Broadway resident Alfred Parsons.

Mr Parsons was a painter and garden designer who had many artistic and literary friends who were regular visitors to the village at the time of the ‘Broadway Colony’, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and JM Barrie.

Robin Whittaker, Worcestershire County Council’s archives manager, said: “This letter was written while Mr Millet was on board the Titanic. It was posted to Mr Parsons via Ireland, and describes in quite witty detail the luxuriousness of the ship.”

Mr Millet describes the Titantic as having “everything but taxicabs and theatres” and his cabin as “the best room I ever had in a ship and it isn’t one of the best either”.

He adds there is a long corridor “in which to hang my clothes” and a square window as big as the ones in his studio at Abbot’s Grange. “As for the rooms, they are larger than the ordinary hotel rooms and much more luxurious with wooden bedsteads, dressing table, hot and cold water etc etc etc electric fans, electric heaters and all,” writes Mr Millet.

“The suites with their damask hangings and mahogany or oak furniture are really very sumptuous and tasteful!”

He also informs Mr Parsons of his observations of the behaviour of some of his fellow passengers, writing of a number of “obnoxious ostentatious American women” who he says are “the scourge of any place they infest and worse on shipboard than anywhere”.

“Many of them carry tiny dogs and lead husbands around like pet lambs,” he said.

The letter is kept in the county council’s strong rooms as part of a larger collection donated by the granddaughters of Mr Parsons.