Twain's story about the Postal service in berlin was originally published in our book
Eva Schweitzer


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Dr. Eva C. Schweitzer

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From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2022 1:46 AM
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Subject: Re: Postal Service

See page 100 of Austilat’s book — A TRAMP IN BERLIN. I don’t have a copy at
hand but amazon has a preview with quotes about the Berlin Rohrpost system.
Perhaps Austilat references the sources of the quotes from that essay in
his bibliography.

Barb

On Wednesday, January 5, 2022, Wolfgang Hochbruck <
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> I would have surmised it was included in Andreas Austilat's 2013
> edition _A Tramp in Berlin_, but not only is the essay itself not
> there, i can't even find a mention of it in the volume.
>
> best
> w
>
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 12:21:04 -0800
>  Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >I recently came across a reference to an essay by Mark Twain entitled
> >"Postal Service".  This was in a series of essays written by David
> >Graeber included in a book entitled "The Utopia of Rules".  He
> >remarked "Mark Twain, who lived briefly in Berlin between 1891 and
> >1892, was so taken with it that he composed one of his only known
> >non-satirical essays, entitled “Postal Service,” just to celebrate its
> >wondrous efficiency.".  This was in reference to the German postal
> >system.  I have been unable to locate this essay by Twain.
> >
> >I'm casting about for interesting bits about Twain's dealing with
> >bureaucracies.  I know there are far too many of them to deal with
> >this comprehensively but I do hope to catch the flavor.
>
>
> Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck
> Dept. of English
> Centre for Security and Society
> Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
> Rempart St. 15
> D-79098 Freiburg
> Germany
>