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July 12, 2019
 
VIA EDGAR CORRESPONDENCE
 
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Investment Management
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C.  20549


 Re:
High Income Securities Fund
Preliminary Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A
Notice of Filing

To Whom it May Concern:
 
The above-referenced filing (the “Preliminary Proxy Statement”) of our client, High Income Securities Fund (the “Fund”), filed today pursuant to Rule 14a-6 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is furnished in connection with the solicitation of proxies by the Board of Trustees of the Fund, a Massachusetts business trust, for use at an annual meeting of shareholders to be held on August 21, 2019 at 10:00 AM, Central time, at the offices of US Bank Global Fund Services, 777 East Wisconsin Avenue, 4th Floor, Milwaukee, WI 53202 to:


 (i)
fix the number of Trustees at 7 and to elect the Trustees;
 

 (ii)
provide a non-binding advisory vote on whether the previously-approved proposal to change the nature of the Fund’s business from being an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended and to de-register the Fund as an investment company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to permit the Fund to operate as a holding company continues to be in the best interests of the Fund;
 

 (iii)
provide a non-binding advisory vote on whether the previously-approved proposal to reorganize the Fund from a Massachusetts business trust into a Delaware corporation continues to be in the best interests of the Fund; and
 

 (iv)
transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.
 

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Please contact me at (212) 885-5442 or Tom Westle at (212) 885-5239 with any questions you may have or for any further information you may desire
 
Very truly yours,

/s/ Brad L. Shiffman

Brad L. Shiffman