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DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20100415
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20100415

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			DOUGLASS SAM P
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001181754

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		FORM TYPE:		DFAN14A

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2929 ALLEN PARKWAY
		STREET 2:		STE 2500
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77019

SUBJECT COMPANY:	

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			EQUUS TOTAL RETURN, INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000878932
		IRS NUMBER:				760345915
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
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		STREET 1:		EIGHT GREENWAY PLAZA
		STREET 2:		SUITE 930
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77046
		BUSINESS PHONE:		7135290900

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		STREET 1:		EIGHT GREENWAY PLAZA
		STREET 2:		SUITE 930
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77046

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	EQUUS II INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19970422
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>SCHEDULE 14A</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Equus Total Return, Inc.</B>
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(Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)</DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>J. Philip Ferguson<BR>
Lance T. Funston<BR>
John D. White<BR>
Charles R. Ofner<BR>
Dr.&nbsp;Francis D. Tuggle<BR>
John P. Wade<BR>
Dr.&nbsp;Charles M. Boyd<BR>
Jonathan H. Godshall<BR>
Paula T. Douglass<BR>
Sam P. Douglass<BR>
Douglass Trust IV - FBO S. Preston Douglass, Jr.<BR>
Douglass Trust IV - FBO Brooke Douglass<BR>
Tiel Trust FBO Sam P. Douglass<BR>
Tiel Trust FBO Paula T. Douglass</B></DIV>

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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">The
    Committee to Enhance Equus<BR>
    <BR>
    </FONT><FONT style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">PROTECT
    YOUR INVESTMENT IN EQUUS<BR>
    <BR>
    VOTE THE <U>GOLD</U> PROXY CARD FOR NINE NOMINEES WHO HAVE<BR>
    EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE, WILL BRING A NEW PERSPECTIVE<BR>
    TO THE BOARD AND WHO WILL WORK TO ENHANCE VALUE FOR<BR>
    <U>ALL</U> EQUUS STOCKHOLDERS<BR>
    </FONT></B>
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    <FONT style="font-size: 12pt">April&#160;15, 2010
    </FONT>
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    <FONT style="font-size: 12pt">Dear Fellow Equus Stockholder,
    </FONT>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 5%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The Committee to Enhance Equus currently owns approximately
    11.4% of the outstanding shares of Equus Total Return, Inc. We
    are seeking your support for the election of our nine nominees
    to the Equus Board of Directors at the upcoming annual meeting
    scheduled for May&#160;12, 2010. The Committee&#146;s nominees
    possess a wealth of experience and will provide all Equus
    stockholders the best opportunity to recoup the value
    destruction suffered by Equus over the past five years.
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 5%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    <B>We urge you to vote on our GOLD proxy card </B>to elect our
    highly-qualified Board nominees. Please also know that the LAST
    proxy card you sign and return is the one that is counted even
    if you have already signed and returned the white card sent to
    you by the company. The current five-member majority of the
    Board of Directors of Equus, which we sometimes refer to as the
    &#147;current majority,&#148; is opposing our nominees and has
    nominated a slate of nine directors, including five incumbents
    and four additional nominees.
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    <B><I><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">65%
    DECLINE IN STOCKHOLDER VALUE</FONT></I></B>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 5%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    In a recent letter to stockholders, accompanied by their
    definitive proxy statement, the current majority admitted that,
    in the past year, Equus had &#147;experienced a significant
    downturn resulting from the poor performance of&#148; its
    investments. In fact, such &#147;poor performance&#148; has been
    occurring for almost five years. In June 2005, Equus retained
    Moore, Clayton Capital Advisors, Inc. (MCCA), a wholly owned
    subsidiary of MCC Global N.V., as its investment adviser. MCCA
    was specifically formed by MCC Global for the purpose of serving
    as Equus&#146;s investment adviser. From that time until June
    2009, when MCCA was no
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    <FONT style="font-size: 12pt"> longer retained as Equus&#146;s
    investment adviser, Equus&#146;s stock price declined
    approximately 61%. In June 2009, the Board of Equus
    &#147;internalized&#148; its management in an attempt to reverse
    the damage done by MCCA. However, from June&#160;30, 2009 to
    March&#160;26, 2010 (the last trading day before members of our
    Committee announced their intention to launch a proxy contest),
    Equus&#146;s stock price declined approximately 12% more,
    representing an aggregate 65% decline since MCCA was retained.
    Equus&#146;s net asset value has also deteriorated
    substantially, declining almost 28% while MCCA served as
    investment adviser and approximately 37% in 2009 alone. See
    &#147;Additional Information&#148; below for comparative data.
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    <B><I><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">OUR
    NOMINEES PERSONALLY OWN MORE THAN TEN TIMES THE AMOUNT OF
    SHARES&#160;OWNED BY THE CURRENT MAJORITY&#146;S NOMINEES, ONE
    OF WHOM SOLD EQUUS SHARES&#160;IN THE PAST WEEK.</FONT></I></B>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 5%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    The proxy statement filed by the current majority discloses that
    the aggregate personal ownership of the current majority&#146;s
    nine nominees consists of only 32,184&#160;shares, or
    approximately <B>0.4% </B>of Equus&#146;s outstanding shares, as
    of March&#160;15, 2010. In fact, one of their nominees, Gregory
    Flanagan, <B>sold 7,500 </B>of his shares in the past week,
    reducing his holdings by more than a third and reducing their
    nominees&#146; total holdings to <B>less than 0.3% </B>of the
    outstanding shares. Our nominees&#146; stake is <B>more than ten
    times that of the other nominees</B>, with their personal
    ownership consisting of 340,418&#160;shares, or approximately
    3.8% of Equus&#146;s outstanding shares. Further, Sam Douglass,
    a member of our Committee, together with the Douglass family,
    beneficially owns an additional 7.6% of the outstanding shares
    of Equus.
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    The interests of our nominees are firmly aligned with your
    interests as meaningful owners of Equus stock.
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    <B><I><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">IT IS
    TIME FOR A REAL CHANGE&#160;&#151; ELECT OUR NOMINEES
    NOW</FONT></I></B>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 5%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    It is time to make real changes in the Board that has failed to
    protect your investment. The Committee&#146;s nominees would
    bring a wealth of experience to help our Company attempt to
    salvage and maximize stockholder value.
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    We believe that <B>real changes require a core transformation of
    the Board, not the continuation of a majority of the existing
    Board </B>and a minority of new directors. <B>Six of our nine
    nominees have never served as directors or officers of Equus
    </B>or its former investment adviser. Only two of our nominees
    are incumbent Board members. Our slate represents real change.
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    In the current majority&#146;s letter to stockholders, their
    response to the difficulties faced by the Company &#147;has been
    to reshape the direction of the Fund by changing the composition
    of our Board of Directors <B><I>&#151;&#160;</I></B>bringing in
    four new individuals.&#148; Merely entrenching the current
    majority and electing four additional candidates (who have no
    personal ownership in Equus) nominated by them does not, in our
    view, reshape Equus or significantly change the composition of
    the Board.
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    The current majority would have you believe that their four new
    nominees offer the stockholders a break from the past and a
    chance to &#147;move on.&#148; The fact is, three of the five
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    <FONT style="font-size: 12pt"> members of the current majority
    are affiliated with MCCA or were appointed to the Board in
    connection with the engagement of MCCA. Kenneth I. Denos has
    held a number of executive offices with MCCA and affiliates of
    MCC Global since 2001, including serving as MCCA&#146;s CEO and
    President from May 2008 until June 2009, when MCCA&#146;s
    advisory agreement was not renewed. <B>During
    Mr.&#160;Denos&#146;s tenure as MCCA&#146;s CEO and President,
    Equus&#146;s stockholder value declined approximately
    <U>53</U>%</B>. Mr.&#160;Denos is also the CEO of MCC Global,
    MCCA&#146;s parent company, and has served in that capacity
    since 2006. In addition, Richard F. Bergner and Henry W.
    Hankinson were nominated to Equus&#146;s Board by MCCA. In
    August 2009, Mr.&#160;Denos, MCC Global and certain of its
    affiliates filed a Schedule&#160;13D with the Securities and
    Exchange Commission disclosing that <B>secured creditors
    foreclosed on 531,680&#160;shares of Equus stock owned by MCC
    Global affiliates,</B> thereby divesting them of a significant
    ownership stake in Equus.
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    <B><I><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">EQUUS
    HAS SUFFERED FROM A SIGNIFICANT LACK OF STABILITY AND CONTINUITY
    IN ITS MANAGEMENT</FONT></I></B>
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    Since June 2005 and in less than five years, Equus has had six
    chairmen of the Board and three CEOs. None of these CEOs had
    prior executive fund management experience. When Equus
    &#147;internalized&#148; its management in June 2009, the Board
    failed to conduct a formal search process among external
    candidates to identify and enlist a CEO with fund management
    experience. Instead, the current majority appointed one of its
    own members to fill this role and results did not improve. Since
    February 2010, Equus has not had an acting CEO or President,
    despite the significant and persistent efforts of
    Mr.&#160;Douglass, a member of our Committee, to conduct an
    appropriate search.
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 5%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    Do not let Equus continue to suffer without an effective CEO.
    Please vote the <U>GOLD</U> proxy card to replace the current
    majority with directors who have the initiative to pursue and
    identify an experienced fund manager.
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    <B><I><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">CHARTING
    A REAL NEW COURSE FOR EQUUS</FONT></I></B>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 5%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    We urge you to help the Committee chart a real new course for
    Equus and elect our nine nominees, six of whom are not incumbent
    directors or former officers of Equus and would constitute a
    substantial new majority to help guide Equus&#146;s future.
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    <B><I><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">OUR
    NEW NOMINEES</FONT></I></B>
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    Our nominees have the right backgrounds for Equus and their
    qualifications are summarized below. For further information
    regarding the experience of our nominees, please refer to our
    definitive proxy statement.
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    <U>J. Philip Ferguson</U>&#160;&#151; Non-Executive member of
    the Board of Directors of ABM Industries Incorporated, a
    facility services provider. AIM Capital Management, a large,
    multi-faceted fund, from 2000 to 2007, including as the
    Chairman, President, Chief Investment Officer and Senior
    Investment Officer.
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    <U>Lance T. Funston</U>&#160;&#151; Non-Executive Chairman of
    the Board of Directors of Telamerica Media, Inc., a media
    aggregator. Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of
    Ultimark Products, LLC, a consumer products company, since 2000.
    Mr.&#160;Funston founded
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    <FONT style="font-size: 12pt">Portfolio Management Systems
    Incorporated, which developed investment management systems for
    major financial institutions including John Hancock, Fidelity
    Mutual, American General, Sun Life, and Bank of America.
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    <U>John D. White</U>&#160;&#151; Co-Founder, Chief Executive
    Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Standard
    Renewable Energy Group, LLC, a private equity fund, and
    Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Trulite, Inc., a company
    commercializing clean power generator products. Mr.&#160;White
    was a Regent of the Texas A&#038;M University System from 2003
    to 2009 and served as the Chairman of the Board of Regents from
    2005 to 2007 and Vice Chairman from 2007 to 2009. Managing
    Director of The Wind Alliance since January 2009.
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    <U>Charles R. Ofner</U>&#160;&#151; Owner of Ofner Associates,
    Inc., a company primarily engaged in international exploration
    and production and oil services. Mr.&#160;Ofner was, from 2000
    to 2006, as a director of Stewart&#160;&#038; Stevenson
    Services, Inc., a company formerly listed on the NYSE which
    operated in the highly regulated industry sector of oil and gas
    equipment and services, serving on the corporate governance
    committee and as chairman of the compensation committee.
    Mr.&#160;Ofner has over 30 years of international business
    experience.
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    <U>John P. Wade</U>&#160;&#151; Senior and Managing Partner of
    Wade&#160;&#038; Company, LLP, a public accounting firm.
    Mr.&#160;Wade has extensive experience advising business
    development companies.
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    <U>Jonathan H. Godshall</U>&#160;&#151; President and Chief
    Executive Officer of Verdient Technologies LLC, a company
    focused on technology based energy efficiency products. From
    1986 to 2001, Mr.&#160;Godshall was the President and Chief
    Executive Officer of Igloo Products Corp., manufacturing and
    marketing coolers and related products on a worldwide basis.
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    The Committee&#146;s nominees also include two incumbent
    directors, Dr.&#160;Francis D. Tuggle and Dr.&#160;Charles M.
    Boyd, and Paula T. Douglass, a former officer of Equus, whose
    experience will be valuable to Equus.
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    <U>Dr.&#160;Francis D. Tuggle</U>&#160;&#151; Professor at the
    George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman
    University since January 2006 and Dean from July 2002 to January
    2006. Professor at the Kogod College of Business Administration
    at American University from July 1999 to June 2002 and Dean from
    July 1990 to June 1996.
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    <U>Dr.&#160;Charles M. Boyd</U>&#160;&#151; Medical Director at
    The Boyd Cosmetic Surgical Institute since April 2009.
    Dr.&#160;Boyd served as Associate Chief of Staff, Office of
    Clinical Affairs, at the University of Michigan from 2006 to
    April 2008. He was also an Assistant Professor, Dept. of
    Dermatology, Div. of Cutaneous Oncology and Dept. of
    Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Div. of Facial Plastic
    Surgery, at the University of Michigan from 1999 to January 2007.
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    <U>Paula T. Douglass</U>&#160;&#151; Mrs.&#160;Douglass is a
    licensed attorney, having practiced at Fulbright and Jaworski
    from 1988 to 1991. She served as a director of Iwerks
    Entertainment, a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ exchange,
    from 1993 to 1997, including service as Executive Chairman from
    1995 to 1997. In addition to years of fund experience,
    Mrs.&#160;Douglass originated and structured Equus&#146;s
    investments in Equus Media Development Company, LLC and Trulite,
    Inc. Mrs.&#160;Douglass serves on the Board of Visitors for
    Pepperdine School of Law and is a trustee for the University of
    Houston Foundation.
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    <B><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">WE URGE
    YOU TO VOTE THE GOLD PROXY CARD TODAY</FONT></B>
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 5%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    We encourage you to read our proxy statement, which accompanies
    this letter. We look forward to speaking to many of you during
    the course of this campaign, and hope that we can count on your
    support.
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<DIV align="left" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 5%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; color: #000000; background: #FFFFFF">
    If you have any questions, or need assistance voting your
    <B>GOLD </B>proxy card, please contact MacKenzie Partners, Inc.,
    which is assisting us in this solicitation, at
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">(800)&#160;322-2885</FONT>
    (toll-free) or
    <FONT style="white-space: nowrap">(212)&#160;929-5500</FONT>
    (call collect) or by email at
    enhanceequus@mackenziepartners.com. You may also be able to vote
    by telephone or internet by following the instructions on the
    enclosed voting form.
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    <FONT style="font-size: 12pt">Sincerely,
    </FONT>
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    <FONT style="font-size: 12pt">THE COMMITTEE TO ENHANCE EQUUS
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    <I><FONT style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Additional
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    Although no two business development companies are alike, the
    Committee believes that Capital Southwest Corporation, MVC
    Capital, Inc., Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. and
    Prospect Capital Corporation have similarities to Equus because
    of their size, their investments or other characteristics and
    that the net asset values of those companies may provide a
    useful comparison to investors. During the period that MCCA
    served as investment adviser, the stock prices of Capital
    Southwest, MVC Capital, Hercules Technology Growth Capital and
    Prospect Capital declined 19%, 15%, 35% and 27%, respectively.
    During that time period, the net asset values (based upon
    publicly available data) of Capital Southwest and MVC Capital
    increased 42% and 74%, respectively, and the net asset values of
    Hercules Technology Growth Capital and Prospect Capital
    decreased 11% and 15%, respectively.
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    THE COMMITTEE TO ENHANCE EQUUS HAS FILED A DEFINITIVE PROXY
    STATEMENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
    COMMISSION. SECURITY HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ CAREFULLY THE
    DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT BECAUSE IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT
    INFORMATION REGARDING THE SOLICITATION OF PROXIES FOR USE AT
    EQUUS TOTAL RETURN, INC.&#146;S ANNUAL MEETING, INCLUDING
    INFORMATION RELATING TO THE COMMITTEE, OUR NOMINEES AND THE
    PARTICIPANTS OF THIS SOLICITATION. THE DEFINITIVE PROXY
    STATEMENT AND A FORM&#160;OF PROXY IS AVAILABLE TO EQUUS
    STOCKHOLDERS FROM THE PARTICIPANTS AT NO CHARGE AT
    WWW.OURMATERIALS.COM/ENHANCEEQUUS AND IS ALSO AVAILABLE AT NO
    CHARGE AT THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION&#146;S WEBSITE
    AT WWW.SEC.GOV. THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT AND A
    FORM&#160;OF PROXY WAS DISSEMINATED TO SECURITY HOLDERS ON OR
    ABOUT APRIL 15, 2010.
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