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grant of his father's confiscated estates and 

 married Mary Ann Gibbes. A copy of his 

 Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War, 1822, is in 

 the British Museum, and an original miniature, 

 kindly lent me by Mrs. Henry S. Holmes, of 

 Charleston, shows his son Alastar, the last of the 

 Gardens. 



Tuberculosis, hitherto successfully fought, be- 

 gan to tell on Garden's health in 1783, although 

 it was hoped, in vain, that " revisiting the haunts 

 of his youth [England and Scotland] and the 

 pleasing recollections of juvenile scenes would 

 have salutary influence in arresting the disease." 

 The good time every learned man tried to give 

 him as guest, during the progress homeward and 

 while travelling in Europe, exhausted his 

 strength. He stayed, with wife and two daugh- 

 ters, in Cecil Street, off the Strand, London, a 

 part of the city up which to-day, as then, creep 

 fog and mist from the river a bad exchange for 

 Carolina sunshine. Here, patiently realizing 

 that nothing could be done, he put on paper all 

 he could of his Carolina work, enjoyed the men 

 who flocked to him, and got ready for his last long 

 journey. He died peacefully in London, in 1792, 

 perhaps realizing in some measure that which he 

 had playfully written of in a letter to Linnaeus, 

 dated 1761 : 



