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[LOGO OF HOWARD, RICE, NEMEROVSKI, CANADY, ROBERTSON, FALK, & RABKIN]
April 11, 1994
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Registration Statement on Form S-3A Accession Number:
0000950131-94-000507
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On April 11, 1994, Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement No. 33-50923
on Form S-3 of The Charles Schwab Corporation was received at 17:30, and
accepted at 17:31. This submission was intended to be a test filing, but was
inadvertently submitted as a live filing, by R.R. Donnelley, the Company's
EDGAR filer.
The test filing was incomplete. The Company's actual Amendment No. 1 is
being filed after the submission of this letter. Please accept this filing of
Amendment No. 1 in lieu of the inadvertent test filing.
If you have any questions about this, please contact the undersigned at
415-399-3153 (office) or 415-322-9951 (home). You may also contact Emily Scott,
who is a representative of R.R. Donnelley familiar with the facts of the
inadvertent filing, at 415-296-7071.
Thank You,
/s/ Horace L. Nash
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Horace L. Nash
