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    REPORT OF INDEPENDENT CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
          ON INTERNAL CONTROL STRUCTURE
  
  
  The Board of Trustees
  Professionally Managed Portfolio
  New York, New York
  
  In planning and performing our audits of the financial statements of the
  Pzena Focused Value Fund and the Titan Financial Services Fund, each
  a series of shares of Professionally Managed Portfolios, for the period
  ended April 30, 1998, we considered their internal control structure,
  including procedures 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 the internal control structure.
  
  The management of the Funds are responsible for establishing and
  maintaining an internal control structure.  In fulfilling this
  responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are required to
  assess the expected benefits and related costs of internal control
  structure policies and procedures.   Two of the objectives of an internal
  control structure are to provide management with reasonable, but not
  absolute, assurance that assets are safeguarded against loss from
  unauthorized use or disposition, and that transactions are executed in
  accordance with management's authorization and recorded properly to
  permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally
  accepted accounting principles.
  
  Because of inherent limitations in any internal control structure, errors
  or irregularities may occur and not be detected.   Also, projection of any
  evaluation of the structure 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 the internal control structure would not necessarily
  disclose all matters in the internal control structure 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 the specific internal
  control structure elements does not reduce to a relatively low level the
  risk that errors or irregularities 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 the internal control structure, including procedures for
  safeguarding securities, that we consider to be material weaknesses, as
  defined above, as of April 30, 1998.
  
  This report is intended solely for the information and use of
  management and the Securities and Exchange Commission, and should
  not be used for any other purpose.
  
  
  Tait, Weller & Baker
  
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  May 29, 1998
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
                         
  
  
  



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