The Gleaner

The Gleaner is a handwritten newspaper of the Friends' Boarding School in Providence, Rhode Island, dated October 18, 1861. It was edited by Eunice B. Carr (ca. 1847- ) of Jamestown, Rhode Island. It includes contemporary news articles about the Civil War, artic exploration, the weather, and visiting Egypt, Canada, and Mexico. It also includes moralistic reflections, advertisements, a wants section, and puzzles.

Friends' Boarding School was an independent, co-educational Quaker school, founded by Moses Brown. The school first opened in 1784 at Portsmouth Friends Meeting House in Portsmouth, R.I., but was closed in the years after the American Revolution due to a shortage of teachers and students. The school was reopened in 1819 in Providence after Brown donated the land where it was built. The school was renamed "Moses Brown School" in 1904.

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