REPORT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
TO ACCOMPANY FORM N-SAR
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To the Trustees of Fidelity Advisor Series I:
In planning and performing our audits of the financial
statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as
"financial statements") of the Funds of Fidelity Advisor Series
I: Fidelity Advisor Dividend Growth Fund, Fidelity Advisor
Retirement Growth Fund, Fidelity Advisor Small Cap Fund, and
Fidelity Advisor Asset Allocation Fund for the year ended
November 30, 1999 we considered their internal control, including
control activities for safeguarding securities, in order to
determine our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing
our opinion on the financial statements and to comply with the
requirements of Form N-SAR, not to provide assurance on internal
control.
The management of the Trust is responsible for establishing and
maintaining internal control. In fulfilling this responsibility,
estimates and judgments by management are required to assess the
expected benefits and related costs of controls. Generally,
controls that are relevant to an audit pertain to the entity's
objective of preparing financial statements for external purposes
that are fairly presented in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles. Those controls include the safeguarding
of assets against unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition.
Because of inherent limitations in internal control,
misstatements due to errors or fraud may occur and not be
detected. Also, projection of any evaluation of internal control
to future periods is subject to the risk that it may become
inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the
effectiveness of the design and operation may deteriorate.
Our consideration of internal control would not necessarily
disclose all matters in internal control that might be material
weaknesses under standards established by the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants. A material weakness is a
condition in which the design or operation of any specific
internal control component does not reduce to a relatively low
level the risk that misstatements due to errors or fraud in
amounts that would be material in relation to the financial
statements being audited may occur and not be detected within a
timely period by employees in the normal course of performing
their assigned functions. However, we noted no matters involving
internal control and its operation, including controls over
safeguarding securities, that we consider to be material
weaknesses as defined above as of November 30, 1999.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of
management and the Trustees of the Trust and the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
January 12, 2000
