The systematic invasion of the European market began very soon after the firm of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict took up their great selling task, and it was mainly through the efforts of Mr. Benedict that the foundations of the business were laid in the Old World countries. Prior to this time E. Remington & Sons had made their own attack on the British market, and their first British catalogue, published over the imprint of their London address, 50-54 Queen Victoria Street, E. C., contains an impressive list of press notices in British journals, published at different times in 1876, also a list of patrons which includes the King of the Netherlands, the Duke of Bedford, the Marquis of Salisbury, Earl Granville and other notables of the period. There is testimonial evidence in this old catalogue that machines were sold in England as early as the year 1874, and similar early efforts are traceable in other European countries. But this early selling effort was not sustained, and it was more than ten years later before any real impression was made on the European market. The London office of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict was opened in 1886, and by the year 1890 the machine had begun to occupy an important place in the British commercial world. The successful introduction of the machine in most of the Continental European countries belongs to the same period. Offices were opened in Paris in 1884, and direct representation was established in Belgium in 1888, Italy in 1889, Holland in 1890, Denmark in 1893, and Greece in 1896. The German market was entered in 1883, and the Russian, with a special machine equipped to write the Russian characters, in 1885. From the very outset of its career in Europe the typewriter has been used by celebrities without number. Many of the crowned heads have been included among its personal users. Lloyd George, many years ago, while still an obscure and struggling attorney in Wales, owned and operated a Model 2 Remington. Count Tolstoi, that earnest disciple of the primitive life, to whom modern machinery in every form was abhorrent, was glad to make an exception in its favor, and many of his extant photographs show him in the act of giving direct dictation to his daughter on the typewriter. Indeed it is not surprising to find the writing machine thus intimately associated with the great, for the very nature of its service, the conservation of brain effort, places it in a far different class from any mere manual labor saver.