Notes
By family tradition, this cloak belonged to Dr. Moritz Emile Richter (1825-1907) of
Portsmouth, a distinguished physician, who was born in Germany and studied at Leipzig University. He
came to this country in 1851 and later lived in the Larkin-Rice house on Middle Street and had offices on
Austin Street and then later on State Street. A tag on the garment suggests, however, that the family
may have moved the history back a generation, and that it was acquired by Arthur Hopkins Rice (1883-
1932), a captain in the U.S. Navy, in ca. 1916. He married Ellnora Ingebretsen Richter (1885-1981),
daughter of Dr. Richter and Josephine Jenness, in 1911. The cloak descended in the family to the donor.