Conference record · 1831 October General Conference · 1831-10-11
Preferred witness preserves conference minutes or a later narrative summary rather than full sermon transcripts; import remains fragmentary because discrete complete talks are not recoverable from the available text.
Does not preserve full sermon text.
Later narrative history mentioning W. W. Phelps and the press.
Later narrative history summarizing instruction and the committee assignment.
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 (Minute Book 2 pp.8-9 across two page fetches, plus History A-1 pp.154 and 156). All three witnesses collated word-for-word against the JSP page transcripts (fetched directly, not jod.mrm.org) -- exact match, including each witness's own spelling of 'Serenes'/'Serenus' Burnett. No missing or altered text found. Metadata confirmed accurate.
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