You are bidding on onehandwritten, signed letter i.eesBritish journalist and author Charles Edward Montague (1867-1928).

In the film "14 - Diaries of the First World War" he is one of thirteen main characters, played by the actor David Acton.

addressed to the Austro-Swiss engineer, poet, writer and translator Felix Beran (1868-1937), who became known as the James Joyce translator.

handwritten,signed letter by journalist and writer Charles Edward Montague (1867-1928) to translator Felix Beran.

Dated Kitt's Quarries, Barford, Oxfordshire, England, Feb. 14, 1928 (three and a half month before his death).

Concerns sending his science fiction novel Right off the Map (1927) for review.

From a bundle of letters (1927-1929) to Felix Beran.

Scope:one side written (22.7 x 15 cm).

Condition:Sheet perforated on the side (without loss of text). Paper a bit creased. Please also note the pictures!

Internal Note: Beran

aboveCharles Edward Montagu & Felix Beran (Source: English & German. wikipedia):

Charles Edward Montagu (1 January 1867 – 28 May 1928) was an English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays.

Biography: Montague was born and brought up in London, the son of an Irish Roman Catholic priest who had left his vocation to marry.[1] He was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford.[1] At Oxford he gained a First in Classical Moderations (1887) and a Second in Literae Humaniores (1889).[2] In 1890 he was recruited by CP Scott to The Manchester Guardian, where he became a leader writer and critic; while Scott was an MP between 1895-1906 he was de facto editor of the paper.[1] He married Scott's daughter Madeline in 1898. While working on the paper, Montague became a supporter of Irish Home Rule.

Montague was against the First World War prior to its commencement, but once it started he believed that it was right to support it in the hope of a swift resolution.[1] In 1914, Montague was 47, which was well over the age for enlistment. But in order to enlist, he dyed his white hair black to enable him to fool the Army into accepting him. HW Nevinson would later write that "Montague is the only man I know whose white hair in a single night turned dark through courage." He began as a grenadier sergeant, and rose to lieutenant and then captain of intelligence in 1915. Later in the war, he became an armed escort for VIPs visiting the battlefield. He escorted such personalities as HG Wells and Bernard Shaw. After the end of World War I he wrote in a strong anti-war vein. He wrote that "War hath no fury like a non-combatant." Disenchantment (1922), a collection of newspaper articles about the war,[1] was one of the first prose works to strongly criticize the way the war was fought, and is regarded by some as a pivotal text in the development of literature about the First World War.[3][4] Disenchantment criticized the British Press' coverage of the war and the conduct of the British generals.[3] Montague accused the latter of being influenced by the "public school ethos" which he condemned as a "gallant robust contempt for "swats" and for all who invented new means to new ends and who trained and used their brains with a will".

He returned to The Manchester Guardian, but felt that his role was diminishing as the years passed. He finally retired in 1925, and settled down to become a full-time writer in the last years of his life. He died in 1928 at the age of 61.

Montague was the father of Evelyn Montague, the Olympic athlete and journalist depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

Media portrayal: Charles Edward Montague is one of the 14 main characters of the series 14 - Diaries of the Great War. He is played by actor David Acton.

Charles Edward Montagu (* 1. January 1867; † 28 May 1928) was a British journalist and author.

Life: Born the son of a Roman Catholic Irish priest, he grew up in London. He attended the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford. After graduating Montague became a journalist with the Manchester Guardian. He had been married to Madeline Scott since 1898. He became an opponent of the war and a pacifist – until the summer of 1914. Despite his 47 years, he volunteered for military service. After the First World War, he resumed his journalistic work. Soon after, however, he retired to spend his twilight years as a writer. Montague died on the 28th. May 1928 at the age of 61. His daughter was the English athlete and journalist Evelyn Aubrey Montague.

Other: In the film 14 - Diaries of the First World War he is one of thirteen main characters, played by the actor David Acton.

Felix Beran (* 17. April 1868 in Vienna; † 12 August 1937 in Zurich) was an Austrian-Swiss engineer, poet, writer and translator.

Life: After training as a mechanical engineer, Beran worked in Germany, North America, Mexico and Rio de Janeiro. Apart from brief interruptions, Zurich has been the center of Beran's life since the end of 1895, where he was first director of the glass incandescent light company and later director and board of directors of Electro-Lux AG.

In Zurich, during the First World War, he also met James Joyce, who translated Beran's poem Des Weibes Klage into English under the title Lament for the Yeomen. Conversely, Beran, who worked as a writer and translator, translated some of Joyce's poems into German, corresponded with Joyce and wrote some newspaper articles about Joyce, who around 1930 asked Daniel Brody, the director of Rhein-Verlag, to help Beran with the German-language Translation of the volume of poems Chamber Music (Ger. chamber music).

Beran received Swiss citizenship in 1927 and had been a Swiss citizen since April 29. April 1927 Citizen of Zurich.

Joyceana

Felix Beran: James Joyce in Zurich. In: Tages-Anzeiger for the city and canton of Zurich. 21. June 1930.

Felix Beran: James Joyce. In: Tages-Anzeiger for the city and canton of Zurich. 22. Nov 1930.

Felix Beran: Meeting James Joyce. A poet who was going blind. In: New Wiener Tagblatt. 12. April 1931. p. 28.

"Alone". James Joyce's "Alone" translated by Felix Beran. In: Daily gazette for the city and canton of Zurich (1932).

"Bahnhofstrasse". James Joyce's "Bahnhofstrasse" translated by Felix Beran. In: Daily gazette for the city and canton of Zurich (1932).

"Midnight Remembrance of the Comedians Before a Mirror". James Joyce's "A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight" translated by Felix Beran. In: The Literary World, 8 (36/37) (1932), 5.