Conference record · 1851 September General Conference · 1851-09-07
The September 1851 Semi-Annual Conference proceedings survive only as a summary paragraph within the Sixth General Epistle of the First Presidency, published in the Deseret News on November 15, 1851. No individual sermon transcripts are preserved. The conference was scheduled as 'October' in the standard semi-annual pattern but was actually held September 7-10, 1851.
Conference proceedings summarized within the Sixth General Epistle. Original Deseret News issue available at BYU ContentDM (desnews1:170571).
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: this record is an excerpt of the Sixth General Epistle's conference-proceedings paragraph (no independent source exists), so source_url tracks that epistle's weebly transcript per its own heavyweight review; the original Deseret News issue (BYU ContentDM desnews1:170571) and newspapers.lib.utah.edu could not be opened directly (HTTP 418 to automated fetch, tooling limitation). Body independently re-verified word-for-word against the epistle's own text (both the live weebly fetch and the sibling 1851-09-first-presidency-sixth-general-epistle.md file in this vault) — traveling-bishop appointments, poor-fund agents, mission calls, Word of Wisdom vote, and tithing vote all match exactly. No missing text, no boundary issues. fidelity: fragmentary remains correct (no individual sermon transcripts survive). Follow-up correction: the id/filename and conference field had been left as '1851-10'/'1851 October General Conference' despite this file's own title and body confirming the conference was held September 7-10, 1851. Renamed to the 1851-09 prefix and corrected conference to '1851 September General Conference,' resolving a tracker display bug where this conference showed as a phantom, already-complete '1851 October' row alongside an empty '1851 September' row. No body text changed.
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