Lincoln's last words

[Eva Elisabeth]

I found this:
http://books.google.de/books?id=L7ZDo_sj...ch_r&cad=1
The sources are here:
http://books.google.de/books?id=L7ZDo_sj...=html_text
Maybe someone who has the "Recollected Works" could check p.29 what is written there as for the "Holy Land" if anything? (Thanks!)

The first and only time I had "heard Lincoln talking" of a visit to the Holy Land before this thread was started was in Spielberg's movie (and there it occured during the afternoon carriage ride). Personally I doubt A. L. would have used the expression "Holy Land". Even Mary in her Dec. 17, 1866 letter which I posted above wrote of "a visit to Palestine". If anything I consider this letter the most reliable, and I would think the rest was embellished out of this. I don't know the 1882 interview Kees recalled though, but I'd rather rely on her memory in 1866 than short before her death. Plus if I understood correctly the 1882 source was only secondary and even later ("Noyes W. Minor...later wrote the words down"). To me the wording "but a few days, after this conversation,...he was rejoicing in the presence of his Saviour" seem to implicate A. L. didn't come up with this topic afterwards anymore, thus exclude the topic as "last words".
I consider it possible "she won't think anything about it" were indeed A. L.'s last words.