Many thanks

Wow, MANY thanks for the links and explanations of the staircase system. That is enormously helpful. I had the feeling - piecing together references from Gaudy Night - that it was like that, but having the confirmation is excellent. In the 1906 history of Harvard that I have, it mentions that the original "sets" were divided into single rooms during the Civil War, so obviously Abigail's nephew (in the book) has a 2-room suite-lette.

And, the link someone gave me to the pdf map of New College w...