Conference record · 1865 April General Conference · 1865-04-06
Deseret News minutes of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference, April 6-9, 1865, preserved only as third-person summaries in this source — no verbatim discourse transcripts for this specific conference were located. (The Historical General Conferences page nominally covering April 1865 also carries a full transcript of an Amasa M. Lyman discourse, but that discourse's own dateline reads 'General Conference, Oct. 9, 1865' — it belongs to the October 1865 conference and has been reserved for filing there, not duplicated here.) Filed entirely as a conference_record; if verbatim JD transcripts for this April 1865 conference surface later, individual talks should be split out at that time.
Official published minutes of the conference.
Digital transcript of the Deseret News minutes; the page also misplaces an October 1865 Lyman discourse at its end.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; body confirmed accurate against the Weebly witness, no changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: independently re-confirmed no JD discourse text exists for this conference via two checks — (1) the IA OCR text of Journal of Discourses Volume 11 jumps directly from a March 19, 1865 discourse to a May 15, 1865 discourse, a chronological gap with no entry for the April 6-9, 1865 conference; (2) the historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com witness page (fetched as raw HTML, not summarized) contains only third-person Deseret News-derived minutes for this conference, with no JD volume/page citation for any April 1865 discourse. Re-verified the existing note that the Weebly page's trailing full-text Lyman discourse is misplaced: its own dateline reads 'General Conference, Oct. 9, 1865' and its reporter (David W. Evans) matches JD 11:192-198, confirming it correctly belongs to (and is already filed under) [[1865-10-lyman-development-of-the-understanding-necessary]], not duplicated here. Body collated paragraph-by-paragraph against the Weebly witness: Thursday-Sunday session summaries, full sustaining-vote roster, and session order all confirmed accurate with no OCR errors found. Confirmed fidelity: fragmentary remains correct per schema/schema.md for record_type: conference_record.
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