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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of The Gabelli Equity
Trust Inc.:

In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements
of The Gabelli Equity Trust Inc. (the "Trust") as of and for the
year ended December 31, 2005, in accordance with the standards of
the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), we
considered the Trust's internal control over financial reporting,
including control activities for safeguarding securities, as a
basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of
expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to comply
with the requirements of Form N-SAR, but not for the purpose of
expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust's
internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we
express no such opinion.

The management of the Trust is responsible for establishing and
maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting.
In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by
management are required to assess the expected benefits and
related costs of controls.  A Trust's internal control over
financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable
assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and
the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.  Such
internal control over financial reporting includes policies and
procedures that provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention
or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or
disposition of a Trust's assets that could have a material effect
on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over
financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future
periods are subject to the risk that controls may become
inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree
of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

A control deficiency exists when the design or operation of a
control does not allow management or employees, in the normal
course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or
detect misstatements on a timely basis. A significant deficiency
is a control deficiency, or combination of control deficiencies,
that adversely affects the Trust's ability to initiate,
authorize, record, process or report external financial data
reliably in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles such that there is more than a remote likelihood that
a misstatement of the Trust's annual or interim financial
statements that is more than inconsequential will not be
prevented or detected.  A material weakness is a control
deficiency, or combination of control deficiencies, that results
in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of
the annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented
or detected.

Our consideration of the Trust's internal control over financial
reporting was for the limited purpose described in the first
paragraph and would not necessarily disclose all deficiencies in
internal control over financial reporting that might be
significant deficiencies or material weaknesses under standards
established by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States).  However, we noted no deficiencies in the
Trust's internal control over financial reporting and its
operation, including controls for safeguarding securities, that
we consider to be material weaknesses as defined above as of
December 31, 2005.

This report is intended solely for the information and use of
management, the Board of Directors of The Gabelli Equity Trust
Inc. 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
February 28, 2006

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