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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000793040-01-500009
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	NSAR-A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20010331
FILED AS OF DATE:		20010530

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ELLSWORTH CONVERTIBLE GROWTH & INCOME FUND INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000793040
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	UNKNOWN SIC - 0000 [0000]
		IRS NUMBER:				133345139
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MD
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0930

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		NSAR-A
		SEC ACT:		
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	811-04656
		FILM NUMBER:		1650179

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		65 MADISON AVENUE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 550
		CITY:			MORRISTOWN
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			07960
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(973) 631-1177

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		65 MADISON AVE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 550
		CITY:			MORRISTOWN
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			07960
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Sub-Item 77C: Matters submitted to a vote of security holders

At Registrant's Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on January 12, 2001,
the following proposals were voted upon:

The proposed Investment Advisory Agreement with Davis-Dinsmore Management
Company was approved, with 7,733,609 shares voted for, 836,057 shares voted
against, and 112,638 shares abstaining.

The proposal to amend the Articles of Incorporation that would give
shareholders the right to tender their shares during the current
fiscal year did not pass, as 1,487,244 shares voted for, 3,050,682
shares voted against, 378,917 shares abstaining and 3,765,461 shares
were broker non-votes.



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Sub-Item 77Q1: Attachment

INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT

	THIS AGREEMENT is entered into this 12th day of January, 2001 by and
between ELLSWORTH CONVERTIBLE GROWTH AND INCOME FUND, INC., a Maryland
corporation (the "Company"), and DAVIS-DINSMORE MANAGEMENT COMPANY, a Delaware
corporation (the "Adviser").

Background

	The Company is registered as a diversified, closed end management
investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act").
The Adviser is registered as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers
Act of 1940, as amended (the "Advisers Act").  The Company desires to engage the
Adviser to provide investment advisory services to the Company, and the Adviser
desires to provide such services to the Company, all on the terms and conditions
set forth below.

	NOW THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which
is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound,
hereby agree as follows:

Agreement

	SECTION 1.  Appointment of Investment Adviser.  The Company hereby
appoints the Adviser to provide investment advisory services to the Company,
and the Adviser hereby accepts such appointment, subject to the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement.

	SECTION 2.  Advisory Services.  Subject at all times to the supervision
of the Board of Directors of the Company, the Adviser shall supervise all
aspects of the Company's operations, including the investment and reinvestment
of cash, securities or other properties comprising the Company's assets.

	In carrying out its obligations in the preceding paragraph of this
Section 2, the Adviser shall (a ) supervise all aspects of the operations of
the Company; (b) obtain and evaluate pertinent information about significant
developments and economic, statistical and financial data, domestic, foreign or
otherwise, whether affecting the economy generally or any industry or the
Company or any issuer of securities held or to be purchased by the Company;
(c) determine which issuers and securities shall be represented in the Company's
investment portfolio and regularly report thereon to the Board of Directors;
(d) place orders for the purchase and sale of securities for the Company; and
(e) take, on behalf of the Company, such other action as may be necessary or
appropriate in connection with the foregoing.

	In placing orders for the purchase and sale of securities for the
Company,the Adviser shall be guided by the Company's investment objectives,
policies andlimitations as delineated by statements contained in the various
documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission as
such documents may from time to time be amended.  The Company will make
available to the Adviser such financial reports, proxy statements, legal and
other information relating to its investments as may be in the possession of
the Company or available to it.

	The Adviser is hereby obligated, in placing orders for the purchase and
sale of securities for the Company, to obtain the most favorable price and
execution available under the circumstances and to keep true, accurate and
current books and records containing sufficient detail to demonstrate
compliance with this obligation.  In determining the most favorable price and
execution in each transaction the determinative factor is not necessarily the
lowest possible commission cost.  The Adviser may consider the full range and
quality of the services of broker-dealers in placing brokerage including, but
not by way of limitation, the value of research provided as well as execution
capability, commission rate, financial responsibility and responsiveness of the
broker-dealer to the Adviser.  Accordingly, to the extent provided by law, in
executing portfolio transactions, the Adviser may pay a broker-dealer which
provides brokerage or research services a commission in excess of that which
another broker-dealer would have charged for the same transaction.

	SECTION 3.  Independent Contractor.  The Adviser shall, for all
purposes of this greement, be deemed to be an independent contractor and shall
have no authority to act for or represent the Company unless otherwise provided.
No agreement, bid, offer, commitment, contract or other engagement entered into
by the Adviser, whether on behalf of the Adviser or whether purported to have
been entered into by the Adviser on behalf of the Company, shall be binding upon
the Company, and all acts authorized to be done by the Adviser under this
Agreement shall be done by the Adviser as an independent contractor and not as
agent.

	SECTION 4.  Expenses.  The Adviser shall provide the Company with office
space and facilities, pay the salaries of its executive officers and furnish
clerical, bookkeeping and statistical services to the Company, and pay all
expenses incurred by the Adviser in the performance of this Agreement.

	The Company will pay all expenses incurred by it and not assumed by the
Adviser including, but not by way of limitation, expenses in connection with its
organization and with the offering of its securities; fees and expenses of its
unaffiliated directors; legal and accounting fees, fees of its custodian,
registrar, transfer agent; dividend disbursing agent and Dividend Reinvestment
Plan Agent; taxes, interest, brokerage commissions; and direct costs of postage,
printing, copying and travel expenses attributable to the conduct of the
businessof the Company. In addition, the Company will pay the costs and expenses
of itsTreasurer's office, up to a maximum of $25,000 per year, incurred in
connectionwith its performance of certain services for the Company, including
the valuationof securities owned by the Company, the preparation of financial
statements and schedules of the Company's investments for inclusion in certain
periodic reports to the Company's Board of Directors and to the Securities and
Exchange Commission, the maintenance of files relating to the foregoing, and
rent, personnel costs and other overhead expenses allocable to the
aforementioned services.  Subject to approval of the Company's directors who are
not "interested persons" of either the Adviser or the Company, as defined by the
1940 Act, the Company may also pay the costs of any additional services
performed in the future by the Treasurer's office in lieu of similar services
previously performed by third party contractors at the Company's expense.

	SECTION 5.  Compensation.  As compensation for the services performed by
the Adviser, the Company will pay the Adviser on the last day of each month a
fee for such month computed at an annual rate of .75% of the first $100,000,000
of the Company's average net assets and .50% of the Company's average net assets
in excess of $100,000,000.

	For the purpose of calculation of the fee, the net asset value for a
month will be the average of the Company's net asset values at the close of
business on the last business day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open
in each week in the month.

	If this Agreement shall become effective subsequent to the first day of
a month, or shall terminate before the last day of a month, the Adviser's
compensation for such fraction of the monthly period shall be determined by
applying the foregoing percentage to the net asset value of the Company during
such fraction of a monthly period (which net asset value shall be determined in
such reasonable manner as the Board of the Company shall deem appropriate) and
in the proportion that such fraction of a monthly period bears to the entire
month.

	Compensation under this Agreement will begin to accrue on its effective
date.

	SECTION 6.  Approval of Agreement; Termination.  This Agreement will be
submitted to the Company's stockholders for approval.  If approved by the vote
of a "majority of the outstanding voting securities" of the Company as such
term is defined in the 1940 Act, this Agreement will be in effect from the date
of approval.  Unless terminated by either party, this Agreement will remain in
effect until December 31, 2002, and for successive one-year periods thereafter,
provided that such continuation is approved annually (i) by the Board of
Directors of the Company or by the holders of a majority of the outstanding
voting securities of the Company and (ii) by a majority of the directors who
are not parties to this Agreement or "interested persons," as defined in the
1940 Act, of any such party.

	This Agreement is terminable without penalty by either party on 60
days' written notice and will terminate automatically in the event of its
assignment.

	Except as specified above, this Agreement may not be amended,
transferred, assigned, sold or in any other manner hypothecated or pledged;
provided, however, that this limitation shall not prevent any minor amendments
to this Agreement which may be required by Federal or state regulatory bodies.

	SECTION 7.  Liability.  The Adviser shall give the Company the benefit
of its best judgment and efforts in rendering the services set forth herein.
The Company agrees as an inducement to the undertaking of these services by the
Adviser that the Adviser shall not be liable for any error of judgment or for
any loss suffered by the Company in connection with any matters to which this
Agreement relates, except that nothing herein contained shall be construed to
protect the Adviser against any liability by reason of willful misfeasance, bad
faith or gross negligence in the performance by the Adviser of its duties or
the reckless disregard of the Adviser's obligations or duties under this
Agreement.

	SECTION 8. Multiple Capacities.  Except to the extent necessary for
performance of the Adviser's obligations hereunder, nothing shall restrict the
Adviser's right or the right of any of the Adviser's directors, officers or
employees who may be directors, officers or employees of the Company to engage
in any other business or to devote time and attention to the management or
other aspects of any other business whether of a similar or dissimilar nature
or to render services of any kind to any other corporation, firm, individual or
association.

	The Company understands that the Adviser now acts and will continue to
act as an investment adviser to another registered investment company and may
act in the future as an investment adviser to fiduciary and other managed
accounts and investment companies.  The Company has no objection to the Adviser
so acting, provided that whenever the Company and one or more other investment
companies or accounts advised by the Adviser have available funds for
investment, investments suitable and appropriate for each will be allocated in
accordance with a formula believed to be equitable to each company and account.
The Company recognizes that in some cases this procedure may adversely affect
the size of the positions obtainable and the prices realized for the Company.

	It is understood and agreed that the directors, officers, agents,
employees and stockholders of the Company may be interested in the Adviser as
directors, officers, stockholders, employees, agents or otherwise, and that the
directors, officers, agents, employees and stockholders of the Adviser may be
interested in the Company as a stockholder or otherwise.

	SECTION 9.  Concerning Applicable Provisions of Law, Etc.  This
Agreement shall be subject to all applicable provisions of law, including, but
not limited to, the applicable provisions of the 1940 Act; and, to the extent
that any provisions herein contained conflict with any such applicable
provisions of law, the latter shall control.

	The laws of the State of Maryland shall, except to the extent that any
applicable provisions of some other law shall be controlling, govern the
construction, validity and effect of this Agreement.

The headings preceding the text of the several sections herein are inserted
solely for convenience of reference and shall not affect the meaning,
construction or effect of this Agreement.



	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as
of the date first written above.


						ELLSWORTH CONVERTIBLE
						GROWTH AND INCOME FUND, INC.

						By: /S/  Thomas H. Dinsmore
						(Chairman)


						DAVIS-DINSMORE MANAGEMENT
						COMPANY


						By:  /S/  Jane D. O'Keeffe
						(President)
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