the testimony of richard llewellyn richard llewellyn is the only observer of julien ever personally interviewed by a member of the order , and he was more than a casual observer what he has to say - concerning other members of the family as well as julien - makes his testimony of very special interest even though his statements are for the most part uncorroborated he has given some of the most intimate glimpses of the mayfair family which we possess therefore , we feel that it is worthwhile to quote our reconstruction of his words in its entirety richard llewellyn came to new orleans in 1900 at the age of twenty and he became an employee of julien , just as victor had once been , for julien though he was then seventy-two years old , still maintained enormous interests in merchandising , cotton factoring , real estate , and banking until the week of his death some fourteen years later , julien kept regular business hours in the library at first street llewellyn worked for julien until his death , and llewellyn admitted candidly to me in 1958 , when i first began my field investigation of the mayfair witches , that he had been julien 's lover llewellyn was in 1958 just past seventy-seven years of age he was a man of medium height , healthy build , and had curly black hair , heavily streaked with gray , and very large and slightly protruding blue eyes he had acquired by that time what i would call a new orleans accent , and no longer sounded like a yankee or a bostoman , though there are definite similarities between the ways that new orleamans and bostomans speak whatever the case , he was unmistakably a new orleaman and he looked the part as well .