Conference record · 1830 September General Conference · 1830-09-26
Preferred witness is contemporaneous conference minutes by Oliver Cowdery in Minute Book 2. The record preserves business, appointments, ordination, remarks, and exhortation, but not full sermon texts. A later History A-1 narrative is included as a secondary witness and gives a retrospective description of conference events.
Minutes taken at the time of the conference by Oliver Cowdery; does not preserve full sermon text.
Later narrative history begun in 1838 and compiled from multiple sources; describes the Hiram Page stone discussion and conference proceedings.
Later narrative description of the conference's harmony, missionary desire, baptisms, and growth.
Proofread against the source text.
Light review: in-context proofread, encoding-artifact cleanup, synopsis/session-artifact cleanup, and spacing fixes. NOT a full page-by-page scan collation.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: JSP source URLs verified as the correct item/page for this conference; Minute Book 2 p.2 transcript and both History A-1 excerpts (pp.58, 60) collated word-for-word against the JSP page transcripts (fetched directly, not jod.mrm.org) -- all three witnesses match the vault text exactly. No missing or altered text found. Metadata (title, speaker, date, conference, fidelity, witnesses) confirmed accurate as recorded.
This is a living critical edition. If you find a transcription, metadata, or sourcing error in this talk, report it to the editors →Reports are collated against the page scan and land as corrections in the vault.