RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department on 29 May and “Preble” and so recorded in SJL with notation “dated Balt.” Enclosure: Edward Preble to Smith, Boston, 18 May, informing Smith that when in Washington he “heard the President express a desire to obtain a sample of Marsalla wine,” and so he has sent to Thomas Tingey for TJ “a hogshead from New York, which I brought from Sicily”; he asks if it would be “improper for me to request you to mention it to the President” (RC in DLC).