Which old stories first had messages sent back in time?

"In 1733, he wrote Memoirs of the Twentieth Century , one of the first science fiction novels."

"Samuel Madden 's Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733) is a series of letters from British ambassadors in 1997 and 1998 to diplomats in the past, conveying the political and religious conditions of the future."

"In his 1987 work Origins of Futuristic Fiction , Paul Alkon describes the book as the earliest in English literature to feature time travel, but notes that it does not explain how it was performed."

"Memoirs of the Twentieth Century ,: Being original letters of state under George the Sixth (1733)"

"After the invention of a method for sending messages back in time, the history of the future becomes common knowledge, and every person knows their own fate."

"Alkon asserts that Madden "deserves recognition as the first to toy with the rich idea of time-travel in the form of an artifact sent backward from the future to be discovered in the present"."

"In the 2008 book Physics of the Impossible , Michio Kaku calls the work arguably the first account of time travel in fiction."

"Because the narrator receives these letters from his guardian angel , Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that "the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel"."

"The date of the earliest work about backwards time travel is uncertain."

"The concept of time travel by mechanical means was popularized in H. G. Wells ' 1895 story, The Time Machine ."

"The idea of a time slip has been used in 19th century fantasy, an early example being Washington Irving 's 1819 Rip Van Winkle , where the mechanism of time travel is an extraordinarily long sleep."

"Mark Twain 's 1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court had considerable influence on later writers."

"This is a very old concept, with some accounts asserting that English mythological figure Merlin lived backwards, and appeared to be able to prophesy the future because for him it was a memory."

"She noted as an instance that Christopher Marlow 's Doctor Faustus called up Helen of Troy and met her arising from her grave."

"A prototype of the time travel story is Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1843)."

"Others differ , finding antecedents as early as 1733 in Samuel Madden’s Memoirs of the Twentieth Century ."

"Early in the Golden Age of Science Fiction , time travel anchored popular works such as L. Sprague de Camp’s novel, Lest Darkness Fall (1939)"

"Robert Heinlein’s By His Bootstraps (1941), and A.E. van Vogt’s The Seesaw (1941)."

"Der erste Roman, in dem eine Zeitmaschine vorkommt, ist El Anacronopete von Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau 1887."

"Davor gab es schon eine Kurzgeschichte The Clock That Went Backward in der Sun vom 18. September 1881 von Edward Page Mitchell ."

"Der Zeitreisende kann sich mittels „Zeitreisepapier“, das an einem Kontaktpunkt niedergelegt wird (und wie von Geisterhand entschwindet), mit seiner „Zeitheimat“ verständigen"