When Olivia and her family moved to Pearblossom, four miles from Llano, the Huxleys spent Christmas with the de Haullevilles and made excursions in the desert they loved.

Aldous wrote The Crows of Pearblossom during such a Christmas holiday in 1944, mentioning in it Olivia's and her brother Siggy's neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Yost.

The Bel Air Fire that destroyed his house in 1961, and his own death in 1963, left the story nearly in oblivion for many years.

By 1967, Olivia had become Mrs. Yorgo Cassapidis, living on the island of Hydra in Greece with a five-year-old daughter of her own, Melina.

Olivia de Haulleville is now living in the Southern California desert near Joshua Tree National Park and is writing her memoirs.