Wit a la mode being a new collection of conundrums, for the use of the ladies with a genuine copy of a letter sent with the said conundrums, from a certain Lady of Quality, to her friend at St. James's. [graphic]
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Lewis Walpole Library > Wit a la mode being a new collection of conundrums, for the use of the ladies with a genuine copy of a letter sent with the said conundrums, from a certain Lady of Quality, to her friend at St. James's. [graphic]
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, imprint and the image create the first external page; opposite is the three of spades as the fourth, also external 'page' when the sheet is folded. The image shows an interior of a church with its pews filled with people listening to the preacher in the pulpit while a young man slips a piece of paper into the hand of a young woman in the last pew on the right. On 'pages' 2 and 3 is the 'genuine copy of a letter' and the conundrums, beginning as follows: My dear, dear Lady / Last Sunday being at St. J---s's Church, the agreeable / impudent Mr. R--- with his usual familiarity ...