Lincoln's Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months that Gave America the Emancipation

[Eva Elisabeth]

Colfax: "Life and Principles of Abraham Lincoln" pp. 16-17, reads:
"...he said to me and other friends that night: 'The signature looks a little tremulous, for my hand was tired, but my resolution was firm...Not one word of it will I ever recall.'" Welles' diary doesn't tell any such details.