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
Louis de Robert Louis de Robert Louis de Robert (5 March 1871, Paris – 27 September 1937) was a French writer, winner of the prix Femina in 1911. He became friends with Émile Zola during the Dreyfus Affair and took a stand for the revision of the trial. A regular collaborator in "The Journal", with Jules Renard, Alphonse Allais, Octave Mirbeau, he was the first reader of the proofs of "Du côté de chez Swann", and dissuaded his friend Marcel Proust to shorten his novel. "Le Roman du malade", serialized in "Le Figaro" then published by the , Prix Femina 1911, the novel