[Dechert Price & Rhoads letterhead]
Ten Post Office Square, South
Boston, MA 02109
May 19, 1998
VIA EDGAR
Securities and Exchange Commission
Judiciary Plaza
450 Fifth Street
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Concord Fund, Inc. (the "Fund")
(File No. 811-566)
Dear Sir or Madam:
Included herewith for filing on behalf of the Fund, pursuant to Rule
14a-6(b) of Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is
additional proxy soliciting material in connection with the Fund's Special
Meeting of Shareholders on April 30, 1998, which was adjourned to June 5, 1998.
No fees are required in connection with this filing.
If you should have any comments or questions with regard to this
matter, please contact the undersigned at (617) 728-7162.
Very truly yours,
Mark K. Loughman
cc: Sheldon A. Jones, Esq.
Gerald I. White
Walter Opanasets