Title: Correspondences in the process of time. Walter Benjamin as a letter collector. The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the letter anthology Deutsche Menschen published and annotated by Walter Benjamin. This book was published 1936 under a pseudonym and keeps record of the German-language letter practice in the 19th century. The investigation will firstly show how Benjamin underpins his apprehension of these letters by developing a poetics of letters reading, which he presents especially in a letter to Ernst Schoen written on the 19th of September 1919. Secondly, after a succinct reconstruction of the backgrounds of the project Deutsche Menschen, the peculiar time conception, which is conveyed by Benjamin’s way of readi...