Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey         Thomas C. Castano
                                                   Assistant General Counsel
                                                   Law Department

                                                   Pruco Life Insurance Company
                                                     of New Jersey
                                                   213 Washington Street
                                                   Newark, NJ 07102-2992
                                                   (973) 802-4708
                                                   fax: (973) 802-9560


                                                   April 27, 2001


Ms. Joyce Picholz
via Edgar Correspondence
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.  20549

     Re:  Pruco  Life  of New  Jersey  Variable  Appreciable  Account  - CIK No.
          0000741313  Request for Withdrawal of  Registration  Statement on Form
          S-6, File No. 333-85117.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The  Post-Effective  Amendment  No.  3  to  the  above-referenced   registration
statement,  filed in accordance  with  Regulation  S-T on Form S-6 was filed and
accepted  on April 26, 2001  (Accession  No.  0000891554-01-502264).  We request
withdrawal of the registration filing because of an error in the type of filing.
The  above-referenced  registration was filed as a submission type S-6/A when it
should have been filed as a submission type 485BPOS.

On behalf of the Pruco  Life of New  Jersey  Variable  Appreciable  Account,  we
request withdrawal of the registration  statement filing pursuant to Rule 477(a)
under the Securities Act of 1933.



                                      Sincerely,


                                      /s/ Thomas C. Castano

                                      Thomas C. Castano
                                      Assistant General Counsel
                                      Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey

via EDGAR