Wilford Woodruff · 1887 October General Conference · 1887-10-08
Reported for The Deseret Weekly; formal apostolic epistle.
Reported for The Deseret Weekly; full epistle published.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the full Deseret News October 12, 1887 proceedings text; replaced a fabricated/mismatched compiler summary with the real source text.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: fetched and read the full Deseret News proceedings for this conference (Oct 12, 1887 issue, pg. 612-613, 620-621), via historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com (newspapers.lib.utah.edu returned HTTP 418 to automated fetch -- known tooling limitation also hit by other reviewers on this vault -- so page-level scan OCR was not independently cross-checked). Cross-referenced the conference's own roll call of general authorities present and the full session-by-session table of contents to verify speaker, date, and session for every talk in this conference; this is the first conference after President John Taylor's death in exile, held during the anti-polygamy 'Underground' period with Apostle Lorenzo Snow presiding, and it includes Wilford Woodruff's historic first public appearance at conference in roughly three years. Replaced a fabricated/mismatched compiler summary with the real, full text of Wilford Woodruff's lengthy Epistle to the Saints (read by Bishop Orson F. Whitney on Woodruff's behalf), which also serves as the Twelve's collective tribute following President John Taylor's death in exile; corrected date/session from Thursday Morning (Oct 6) to Saturday Afternoon (Oct 8) to match.
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