"The Favorite Passion
of My Soul"
Thomas Jefferson to Giovanni Fabbroni
Holograph letter,
June 8, 1778
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1904 (8.4)
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In the midst of the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson still
found time for music, which he called "the favorite passion of my
soul" in this letter to Giovanni Fabbrioni. Jefferson maintained
a life-long interest in music, collected numerous treatises on music,
and tried to foster an appreciation of music in America, where Jefferson
asserted "it [music] is in a state of deplorable barbarism."
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