Father Meehan November 6, 1932

Father Meehan November 6, 1932

2 photos of Ed Meehan DS17 shooting at tin cans, near Deep Springs Lake

Ed Meehan became a Roman Catholic priest, hence the "Father Meehan" title, would have been visiting

Walter Balderston DS30

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Collection 37/4/1770, Lucien L Nunn papers, [ca. 1890-1971], Box 33

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November 6, 1932

Dens Clark

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Deep Springs

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approximately 3 x 5 in.

The name rang a bell. In Bob Aird's memoir, "Deep Springs - its founder, history, and philosophy with personal reflections," he spends a fair amount of time discounting any homosexual behavior by LL Nunn's as "highly improbable". On p. 91, he writes, "I am aware of only two individuals whose names have been specifically proposed as LL's possible lovers. The first is Father Mehan [sic], a Catholic priest and well-known homosexual in San Francisco, who was later defrocked by his archbishop." A little online searching does not find anything independent along these lines. Aird's book does not meet the critical standards of history, but here it is, in case someone is picking up these threads again. DEC, 1/2017.

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Collection 37/4/1770, Lucien L Nunn papers, [ca. 1890-1971], Box 33