Kamody Miklós: Indul a postakocsi (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 35. Miskolc, 1990)

TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE 5 INTRODUKTION 7 I. THE SITUATION OF THE HUNGARIAN POST IN THE SECOND PART OF THE 18TH CENTURY 1. The start of the scheduled postal service 9 2. The postal orders of Josef the 2nd 12 3. The organization of the Council of Governor and activity of the postal department 15 II. THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMICAL SITUATION IN THE TOWN OF MISKOLC IN LAST THIRD OF THE 18th CENTURY 1. The market town was changed into a free royal town 17 2. Financial situation of the town in 1789-1792 22 3. Miskolc without post office 24 III. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE COUNTY AND THE COUNCIL OF GOVERNOR IN THE MATTER OF THE POSTAL STATION 1. Encouraging start and hindering circumstances 32 2. The opening of the postal station 37 3. Postmaster László Bakos, the first head of the post office in Miskolc 45 4. Complications around the final placing of the post station 59 IV. THE ACTIVITY OF THE POST OFFICE IN MISKOLC IN THE PERIOD OF THE DELIGENCE 1. Correspondence and travel in the reform era 63 2. The activity of the Szedliczkys and Duronellis 76 V. THE POST IN MISKOLC IN THE SECOND PART OF XIX. CENTURY 1. The postal memories of the great days 98 2. The Austrian post in Miskolc 101 3. Since the compromise until the turn of the century 107 181