Peterhouse
Medieval college of quiet courts where a fire-fearing poet kept an escape rope by his window.
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This guide to Peterhouse in Cambridge follows the poet Thomas Gray, who arrived in seventeen thirty-four, mocked the college Fellows in his letters, and lived with a lifelong dread of fire. It looks at the precautions he took in his top-floor rooms in the Burrough's Building, and at the students who noticed them one night in March seventeen fifty-six. Best heard in the front court, looking up at the north range.
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