Description of a College Chamber, ca. 1744.

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Description of a College Chamber, ca. 1744.

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This humorous, rhyming poem appears to have been co-authored by Thomas Handcock of Massachusetts and Richard Waterman of Warwick, Rhode Island. The document is also signed by Catharine Waterman. Neither of the authors graduated from Harvard College, and the circumstances of this poem's creation are not known. The poem suggests that they composed the poem while visiting - uninvited - the room of "honest Bob."

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Handcock, Thomas

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Waterman, Richard William, 1836-1920

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