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SIGNATURE KRISTI L. ROWSELL
TITLE ASSISTANT TREASURER
To the Board of Directors of the
Harris Associates Investment Trust:
In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements
of the HARRIS ASSOCIATES INVESTMENT TRUST,
comprised of the Oakmark Fund, The Oakmark Balanced Fund,
The Oakmark Small Cap Fund, The Oakmark International
Fund and The Oakmark International Emerging Value Fund
(the "Funds"), for the year ended October 31, 1996, we
considered its 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, and
not to provide assurance on the internal control
structure.
The management of the Funds is responsible for
establishing and maintaining and 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 the inherent limitations in any internal
control structure, errors or irregularities may
occur and may 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 October 31, 1996.
This report is intended solely for the
information and use of management
and the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
/S/ Arthur Andersen LLP
Chicago, Illinois
December 6, 1996