TCG Letter #533 / Carpenter Letter #184

Tolkien writes to a Mr Sam Gamgee from Tooting. He mentions how he came up with the name Gamgee, and mentions "cotton-wool" and the Gamgee family from Birmingham.^{See Letter from Sam Gamgee to J.R.R. Tolkien • 13 March 1956 (#910) for Sam's letter to Tolkien.[1]}