Alexander Hay Japp and Japp's conversation attracted Stevenson and his father. Stevenson read to Japp the early chapters of "Treasure Island", then called "The Sea Cook", and Japp negotiated its publication in "Young Folks". Subsequently Stevenson and Japp corresponded on intimate terms; and Japp's last work, "Robert Louis Stevenson: a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial" (1905), was the result of their contacts. Japp was versatile and prolific writer, writing under pseudonyms such as "H. A. Page", "A. F. Scot", "E. Conder Gray", and "A. N. Mount Rose" as well as in his own name. In his own name he issued in 1865
James Stevenson, 1st Baron Stevenson as Baron Stevenson, of Holmbury in the County of Surrey, on 7 May 1924, during the first premiership of Ramsay MacDonald. He was the first person from Kilmarnock to be elevated to the peerage. According to his obituary, in 1912 he published a novel, "The Kiss of Chance" (published by Eveleigh Nash, London, pp. 301), under the pseudonym Roland Dunster. A second novel was "An Incurable Disease" which "The Strand" magazine says was illustrated by Septimus Edwin Scott. Lord Stevenson died on 10 June 1926, aged 53, when the baronetcy and barony became extinct. James Stevenson, 1st Baron Stevenson James