Minutes of the London Conferences, Held at Aldenham Street & Theobold's Road, On the 22nd and 23rd of December, 1849, and the 1st and 2nd of June, 1850

London: Printed by W. Bowden, 1850. Pamphlet. Very Good. 16pp. Octavo [22 cm] pamphlet; unsewn. Age toned with some minor sporadic stains and marks. We can locate four institutional copies. Rare. According to Crawley "Two different conferences under different presidents are reported in this pamphlet, the first of ten located London Conference reports. Pages 2-7 summarize four meetings in December 1849, one on Saturday evening, December 22, and three on Sunday, the 23rd. During the Sunday morning session, the congregation voted to sustain Thomas Margetts as president of the London Conference, succeeding John Banks. A table on p. 3 gives the statistics for forty branches in the conference, including St. Helier, Jersey, and Southampton, which were formed during the Sunday morning meeting into separate conferences. Pages 7-16 contain the minutes of four sessions in June 1850, one on Saturday evening, June 1, three on Sunday, June 2, and include summaries of the talks by three of the Twelve, Erastus Snow, Lorenzo Snow, and Franklin D. Richards. Tables on pp. [8]-[9] give the statistics for forty-two branches." Crawley 490. Flake/Draper 1940d.