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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
To the Board of Directors of
The Delaware Group Adviser Funds, Inc.:
In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements
and financial highlights of each of the portfolios of The
Delaware Group Adviser Funds, Inc., for the year ended October
31, 1996, we considered its internal control structure, including
procedures for safeguarding securities, in order to determine our
auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on
the financial statements and financial highlights and to comply
with the requirements of Form N-SAR, not to provide assurance on
the internal control structure.
The management of The Delaware Group Adviser Funds, Inc. is
responsible for establishing and maintaining an internal control
structure. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and
judgments by management are required to assess the expected
benefits and related costs of internal control structure policies
and procedures. Two of the objectives of an internal control
structure are to provide management with reasonable, but not
absolute, assurance that assets are safeguarded against loss from
unauthorized use or disposition and that transactions are
executed in accordance with management's authorization and
recorded properly to permit preparation of financial statements
in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.
Because of inherent limitations in any internal control
structure, errors or irregularities may occur and not be
detected. Also, projection of any evaluation of the structure to
future periods is subject to the risk that it may become
inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the
effectiveness of the design and operation may deteriorate.
Our consideration of the internal control structure would not
necessarily disclose all matters in the internal control
structure 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 the spe cific internal control structure
elements do not reduce to a relatively low level the risk that
errors or irregulari ties in amounts that would be material in
relation to the financial statements and financial highlights
being audited may occur and not be detected within a timely
period by employees in the normal course of perform ing their
assigned functions. However, we noted no matters involving the
internal control structure, including procedures for safeguarding
securities, that we consider to be material weaknesses, as
defined above, as of October 31, 1996.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of
management and the Board of Directors of The Delaware Group
Adviser Funds, Inc. and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
COOPERS & LYBRAND L.L.P.
2400 Eleven Penn Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
December 20, 1996
