TOCQUEVILLE TRUST
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o the Board of Trustees of
The Tocqueville Trust.

In  planning  and  performing  our  audit  of the  financial  statements  of The
Tocqueville  Trust  (the  "Trust"),  consisting  of The  Tocqueville  Fund,  The
Tocqueville Small Cap Value Fund, The Tocqueville  International Value Fund, and
The  Tocqueville  Gold Fund,  for the year ended October 31, 1999, we considered
its internal control,  including control activities for safeguarding securities,
in order to determine our auditing  procedures for the purpose of expressing our
opinion on the financial  statements and to comply with the requirements of Form
N-SAR, not to provide assurance on internal control.

The management of The  Tocqueville  Trust is responsible  for  establishing  and
maintaining internal control. In fulfilling this  responsibility,  estimates and
judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related
costs of controls.  Generally, controls that are relevant to an audit pertain to
the entity's objective of preparing  financial  statements for external purposes
that are fairly  presented in  conformity  with  generally  accepted  accounting
principles.   Those  controls   include  the   safeguarding  of  assets  against
unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition.

Because of inherent  limitations in internal control,  errors or fraud may occur
and not be detected.  Also,  projection of any evaluation of internal control to
future  periods  is  subject to the risk that  controls  may  become  inadequate
because of changes in conditions or that the  effectiveness  of their design and
operation may deteriorate.

Our consideration of internal control would not necessarily disclose all matters
in  internal   control  that  might  be  material   weaknesses  under  standards
established  by the  American  Institute  of  Certified  Public  Accountants.  A
material weakness is a condition in which the design or operation of one or more
of the internal control components does not reduce to a relatively low level the
risk  that  misstatements  caused  by error or fraud in  amounts  that  would be
material in relation to the financial statements being audited may occur and not
be  detected  within a timely  period  by  employees  in the  normal  course  of
performing  their assigned  functions.  However,  we noted no matters  involving
internal  control  and  its  operation,   including  controls  for  safeguarding
securities,  that we consider to be material  weaknesses  as defined above as of
October 31, 1999.

This  report is  intended  solely  for the  information  and use of the Board of
Trustees,  management  and the  Securities  and Exchange  Commission  and is not
intended  to be and  should not be used by anyone  other  than  these  specified
parties.


PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP


New York, New York
November 24, 1999

ITEM 77-K

CHANGE IN INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANT


On August 13 1999, McGladrey & Pullen, LLP ("McGladrey") resigned as independent
auditors of the Fund  pursuant to an  agreement  by  PricewaterhouseCoopers  LLP
("PwC")  to acquire  McGladrey's  investment  company  practice.  The  McGladrey
partners  and  professionals  serving  the Fund at the  time of the  acquisition
joined PwC.

The reports of McGladrey on the financial statements of the Fund during the past
two fiscal years contained no adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion, and were
not  qualified  or  modified  as  to  uncertainty,  audit  scope  or  accounting
principles.

In  connection  with its audits for the two most recent fiscal years and through
August 13,  1999 there were no  disagreements  with  McGladrey  on any matter of
accounting principle or practices,  financial statement disclosure,  or auditing
scope or procedure, which disagreements,  if not resolved to the satisfaction of
McGladrey  would  have  caused it to make  reference  to the  subject  matter of
disagreement in connection with its report.

On September 9, 1999,  the Fund,  with the approval of its Board of Trustees and
its Audit Committee, engaged PwC as its independent auditors.

ITEM 77-K







Securities and Exchange Commission
Judiciary Plaza
450 Fifth Street
Washington D.C. 20549


We were  previously the independent  accountants  for the Tocqueville  Trust. We
have read their  notification of change in independent  accountants made in Item
77K of Form N-SAR. We agree with the statements in the filing.




                                                     McGladrey & Pullen, LLP


New York, New York
December 21, 1999


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