Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell's Charleston Bulletin supplements – in pictures

Woolf spent many summers in Monk's House, Rodmell, close to Charleston Farmhouse where Quentin Bell lived with his family and their various guests during his school holidays. Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

Quentin Bell Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

Eminent Charlestonians title page Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

TRISY (from Eminent Charlestonians) 1 PANCAKE DAY When in a good & merry mood, Trisy would seize a dozen eggs & a bucket of flour, coerce a cow to milk itself, & then mixing the ingredients toss them 20 times high up over the skyline, & catch them as they fell in dozens & dozens & dozens of pancakes. 2 TRISYS PORRIDGE But her porridge was a very different affair. This was costive close & crusty. It dolloped out of a black pan in lumps of mortar. It stank; it stuck. Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

TAKES HENRY OUT FOR A WALK (From the Eminent Charlestonians) Still the lower animals remained & to Henry she turned for comfort, help & protection. Unfortunately the hare ran, the string broke and Miss A was again discomposed, this time in the mud. WRITES TO THE BULLETIN Driven from pillar to post, with no refuge in roost, she applied herself as a final resort to pen and ink and produced in the space of 5 hours, 6 lines of reading matter of an obscene contentious & libellous nature, which would have continued indefinitely had the ink pot not soaked through on to Keynes bald head. THE END Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

The Dunciad. A satire on Duncan Grant, with text by and in the hand of Virginia Woolf and the illustrations and their captions as well as contents and chapter headings are by and in the hand of Quentin Bell. Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

7 TAKEN TO BEDLAM (from The Dunciad) (But Uncle Trevor is now in Bed.) 8 RESCUES CHILD From Barge Aholibah on Cam. In Sir Leslie's trousers, now used for dress purposes only. Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

ARRIVAL AT 46 GORDON SQUARE (from The Messiah) This is a bald and timid statement of what actually occurred when the newly married arrived at their house. Vans, crates, wagon lorries, cabs, hansom & growler, balloons, captive and escaped, motors, hired & borrowed, sacks, peddlars, packing cases, Pickfords, Carter Pattersons, perambulators - in short anything on wheels or trotters, bowled up to 46 & deposited, heaped, piled, stacked in short dumped down & piled up what was the material foundation of years upon years of miscellaneous family bliss. The door was burst open by the impact of a cast of the Venus of Milo: which disclosed an old woman, & a serried file of the familiar Beetle, commonly, but erroneously styled, Black. Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

A DINNER PARTY AT 46 (from The Messiah) Here we have the first entertainment: which comprised reading from left to right, Mrs Bell, Lytton Strachey, Lord Robert Cecil, Mrs Humphrey Ward, the Quaker & the poet Yeats. Such an assembly had rarely got together & seldom sprung apart. Now they did both. "Hah" said Mrs. Ward. "Hum" said the Quaker. "Huh!" said Lord Robert & "Tosh!" said Lytton. The Poet Yeats was not observed to make a single remark, but grinding his teeth, & stamping his feet produced a sound which was expressive of considerable mental equipment in a congealed condition. Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

SHOOTING A PEACOCK (from The Messiah) The kindest of men, to whom the very slugs were sacred, ravaged by hunger and raucous with the din, snatched his gun and shot a peacock. As it died, the voice of the Hag sounded with the voice of the bird, & two shrieks, intertwined in cacophony, writhed or wriggled to Heaven, leaving however Lady Ottoline on earth to jug what remained of the bird's carcase for the evening meal. The fowl was bred on the parings of toenails and cherished for it an almost maternal partiality.
Photograph: 8548/2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

THE FIRST MEET (from The Messiah) At a very early age a red suit was bought for him to match his flaming yellow hair, at that time often compared to the sun sinking over the ocean bed, & he was set a-horse-back. He proved himself at once a Master of the Reins; to such an extent that, after out-galloping the hunt, led by the Duke of Beaufort, he was tarred with foxes blood and given the Brush to hang up in his nursery. From that hour he was the idol of Wilts & many ladies, too many to name, too illustrious to specify, carried locks of his hair in their reticules, hence his comparative epidermic depilation in later life. Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

Special Xmas Number 1923 title page. A life of Vanessa Bell dictated by Virginia Woolf, pictures and spelling by Quentin Bell. Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

SCENE 9 (from Special X-Mas Number 1923): An unfortunate incident at Fritham. Surveying the bees with the post-master general one of the insects had the temerity to enter the drum of Nessa's ear and there kicked up such a racket that she said it was like twelve brass bands in a teapot. Austen Chamberlain extracted the bee with a buttonhook. Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

La vie amoureuse de Monsieur Fry by Virginia Woolf Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

La vie amoureuse de Monsieur Fry Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell

La vie amoureuse de Monsieur Fry Photograph: 2013 the Estates of Virginia Woolf and Quentin Bell