arkes
containing letters and reminiscences of their many literary friends;
and Mary Cowden Clarke's autobiography, _My Long Life_ (1896). A
charming series of letters (1850-1861), addressed by her to an
American admirer of her work, Robert Balmanno, was edited by Anne
Upton Nettleton as _Letters to an Enthusiast_ (Chicago, 1902).

CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769-1822), English mineralogist and traveller,
was born at Willingdon, Sussex, on the 5th of June 1769, and educated
first at Tonbridge. In 1786 he obtained the office of chapel clerk at
Jesus College, Cambridge, but the loss of his father at this time
involved him in difficulties. In 1790 he took his degree, and soon after
became private tutor to Henry Tufton, nephew of the duke of Dorset. In
1792 he obtained an engagement to travel with Lord Berwick through
Germany, Switzerland and Italy. After crossing the Alps, and visiting a
few of the principal cities of Italy, including Rome, he went to Naples,
where he remained nearly two years. Having returned to England in the
summer of 1794, he became tutor in several distinguished families. In
1799 he set out with a Mr Cripps on a tour through the continent of
Europe, beginning with Norway and Sweden, whence they proceeded through
Russia and the Crimea to Constantinople, Rhodes, and afterwards to Egypt
and Palestine. After the capitulation of Alexandria, Clarke was of
considerable use in securing for England the statues, sarcophagi, maps,
manuscripts, &c., which had been collected by the French savants. Greece
was the country next visited. From Athens the travellers proceeded by
land to Constantinople, and after a short stay in that city directed
their course homewards through Rumelia, Austria, Germany and France.
Clarke, who had now obtained considerable reputation, took up his
residence at Cambridge. He received the degree of LL.D. shortly after
his return in 1803, on account of the valuable donations, including a
colossal statue of the Eleusinian Ceres, which he had made to the
university. He was also presented to the college living of Harlton, near
Cambridge, in 1805, to which, four years later, his father-in-law added
that of Yeldham. Towards the end of 1808 Dr Clarke was appointed to the
professorship of mineralogy in Cambridge, then first instituted. Nor was
his perseverance as a traveller otherwise unrewarded. The MSS. which he
had collected in the course of his travels were sold to the Bodleian
libra