Your most affectionate
D. Gibbon.
647.
To Lord Sheffield.
St. James's Street, four o'clock, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1794.[335]
RETURN TO LONDON.
*This date says every thing. I was almost killed between Sheffield-place and East Grinsted, by hard, frozen, long, and cross ruts, that would disgrace the approach of an Indian wigwam. The rest was something less painful; and I reached this place half dead, but not seriously feverish, or ill. I found a dinner invitation from Lord Lucan; but what are dinners to me? I wish they did not know of my departure. I catch the flying post. What an effort! Adieu, till Thursday or Friday.*
Gibbon died at 76, St. James's Street, on January 16, 1794. He was buried in Lord Sheffield's family burial-place in Fletching, Sussex.
LAST MOMENTS OF GIBBON.