Company: SWZ
Filing Date: 2025-01-22
Form Type: CORRESP
Source: 0000894189-25-000267
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Company: Total Return Securities Fund
Filing Date: 2025-01-22
Form: CORRESP
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| TELEPHONE: 1-212-558-4000FACSIMILE: 1-212-558-3588 
 WWW.SULLCROM.COM                                   | 125 Broad StreetNew York, New York 10004-2498 
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 LOS ANGELES • PALO ALTO • WASHINGTON, D.C.    
 BRUSSELS • FRANKFURT • LONDON • PARIS         
 BEIJING • HONG KONG • TOKYO                   
 MELBOURNE • SYDNEY                            |

January 22, 2025 Via EDGAR and E-Mail David Orlic,
Division of Investment Management,
Securities and Exchange Commission,
100 F Street, N.E.,
Washington, D.C. 20549.

| Re: | The Swiss Helvetia Fund, Inc. |

Schedule 14A – Preliminary Proxy Statement Filed January 10, 2025 File No. 811-05128 Dear Mr. Orlic: On behalf of The Swiss Helvetia Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”), this letter provides the Fund’s responses to the comments (the “Comments”) of the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission as conveyed to the undersigned on January 16, 2025, with respect to the Schedule 14A filed by the Fund on January 10, 2025 (File No. 811-05128) (the “Preliminary Proxy Statement”). All responses are keyed to the individual Comments and are designated with “Fund Response” below the applicable comment number. For your convenience, each of the Comments is restated in bold italics prior to the Fund’s response. Capitalized terms used below but not defined herein have the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Proxy Statement. 1. Please provide the beneficial ownership table required by Item 6(d) of Schedule 14(a). Fund Response: In response to the Staff’s comment, the Fund will include the required table in the Fund’s definitive proxy statement (the “Definitive Proxy Statement”), which the Fund expects to file on or about January 24, 2025.

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2. In the “Introduction” to the Preliminary Proxy Statement, under “Voting Information”, the third paragraph discusses broker non-votes. Please revise the paragraph to state that if a beneficial owner does not give instructions to his broker as to how to vote his or her shares, those shares will not be present