Prescription Book of Dr. O.O.Roberts of Bangor

A vigorous personality who managed to combine a large medical practice with fruitful activity in the world of local government and general politics. This MS., pp.1-231, extends in date from 1848 to 1857, and seems confined to patients in the Conway Valley and its hinterland (O.O.R. was a native of Llanrwst). The book originally belonged to a poetaster named Myrddin, whose effusions are found on pp. iii-xxix : translations into Welsh of Parnell's Hermit, Thomson's Hymn to Nature, Pope's Universal Prayer, and certain verses of Mrs. Hemans; also epitaphs and elegies, proving that Myrddin hailed from Conway or its neighbourhood. Later pp. of the MS., xliv-xlvi, are in a much later hand, and refer to an agitation, extending over the years 1889-1895, to secure a railway station at Maes-y-groes or Tal-y-bont on the L.N.W.Railway between Bangor and Aber. pxlvii has to do with the affairs of the Bangor and Beaumaris Poor Union (1895).

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