"The First Wish of My Heart": Virginia Trist's English Guitar

Music played a prominent role at Monticello during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Numerous instruments were performed, including an English Guitar gifted to Virginia Randolph Trist, one of Thomas Jefferson's granddaughters. In this episode of Mountaintop History, Monticello Guide shares the story of this instrument and what it can tell us about music in the Jefferson household.