十多年前,我收集到几十封家书。字里行间除家长里短、亲情关怀外,颇多涉及写诗、作画和文物收藏。遗憾的是,居然没有一枚实寄封,信的抬头落款都无完整署名,而且信末除两通写有纪年外,其余只署月日,甚至只署几日。信又是杂乱放在一起的,所以很难搞清姓字名谁和准确写、发日期及顺序。经反复研读,多方查询,终于初步搞清了写信者竟是清末民初的一双书画伉俪分别写给儿女特别是第五女的(陈庄伉俪共育有六个女儿两个儿子,五女陈鹂1904-1999年,毕业于北平大学西画系,曾任人民美术出版社编辑),写信时间当在上世纪二三十代。写信的男主角陈韬(1870-1937年),字季略,书斋名玉螭阁。祖籍湖南衡山,生于江苏武进(今常州)。清末曾任 Ten years ago, I collected dozens of letters. In addition to the family between the lines in the short, caring, many involved in writing poetry, painting and cultural relics collection. Regrettably, there is actually not a real mailing address. There is no complete signature of the letter of credit. Apart from the anniversary written by the two parties, the letter only lasts for a few days. The letter is messy together, so it is difficult to find out who exactly and who wrote the name, date and order. After repeated studies and multi-party inquiries, they finally figured out that the writers were actually a pair of calligraphies and paintings by the end of the Qing dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China to the fifth female, especially the fifth woman (Chen Zhuang and his wife had six daughters, two sons and five women Chen Li 1904-1999, graduated from the Peking University Department of Painting, RenPeople’s Fine Arts Publishing House editor), writing time in the last century twenty or thirty generations. Written by the actor Chen Tao (1870 - 1937), the word quarter slightly, the book vegetarian name Jade Court. Native of Hunan Hengshan, was born in Jiangsu Wujin (now Changzhou). Late Qing Dynasty