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NEW ENGLAND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
501 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116-3700
May 15, 1997
VIA EDGAR
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Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, D.C.
Re: New England Variable Life Separate Account
File No. 33-10954
Withdrawal of filing pursuant to Rule 477
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Commissioners:
On behalf of New England Life Insurance Company (the "Company") and New
England Variable Life Separate Account (the "Account"), we hereby request that
485BPOS tag filing for the Account, which was accepted by the Commission on May
5, 1997, be withdrawn pursuant to Rule 477 under the Securities Act of 1933. The
Account CIK number is 0000717347 and the accession number of this filing is
0000927016-97-001245. This filing was an inadvertent duplication of
Post-Effective Amendment No. 12 for the Account as filed electronically with the
Commission and accepted on April 30, 1997.
The duplicate filing on May 5, 1997 was due to an error at the vendor
responsible for the Account's EDGAR filings, R.R. Donnelley. Attached is a
letter from Wayne Eaton of R.R. Donnelley regarding the inadvertent duplicate
filing.
If you have any questions, please contact me at (617) 578-2857.
Sincerely,
Marie C. Swift
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[RRD Financial Letterhead]
May 15, 1997
Ellen Mitchell
New England Life Insurance Company
Re: New England Variable Life Separate Account (CIK: 0000717347)
Rule 477 Request for Withdrawal of Duplicate Amendment to Registration
Statement on Form S-6
(Accession Number 0000927016-97-001245)
Sec File Number: 033-10954
Dear Ms. Mitchell,
RR Donnelley transmitted an EDGAR submission type 485BPOS for New England
Variable Life Separate Account on April 30, 1997 and the filing was accepted by
the Securities and Exchange Commission (Accession Number 0000950109-97-003419).
On May 2, 1997 after receiving authorization to transmit an EDGAR submission
type 497J (certification of no change in definitive materials), we failed to re-
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assemble the filing prior to transmission to the SEC, resulting in the
inadvertent transmission of a 485BPOS filing on behalf of the Account that was
identical to the 485BPOS filing that was transmitted on April 30th. This second
inadvertent filing (Accession Number 0000927016-97-001245) was accepted on May
5th.
RR Donnelley apologizes for this error. It was a human error and we do not
believe this reflects an inherent system flaw. Please let us know if there is
any further information we can supply and whether there is anything we can do
to assist you in having this amendment withdrawn.
Sincerely,
/s/ Wayne Eaton
Wayne Eaton
