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April 11, 2003
By telecopier:
310/320-2436
Mr. John E. Simmons
Secretary of the Corporation
Farmer Bros. Co.
20333 South Normandie Avenue
Torrance, California 90502
Re: March 13, 2003 demand to
inspect records
Dear Mr. Simmons:
No response has been received to the letters I sent you on March
13 and March 31, 2003 as Delegate. There has also been no evidence of any
public report by Farmer Bros. Co. of the information requested in the March
13 letter, or of any report of management’s intentions to respond as
requested in the March 31 letter.
Under these circumstances, I repeat the demand of the March 13, 2003
Delegate letter for the records listed in items “1” through “6.” Since this
demand is exactly the same as the demand of Franklin Mutual Advisers to
which you reportedly responded several weeks ago, your compliance with the
March 13 Delegate demand should require no more than an hour or two of
administrative time to copy and mail a duplicate of the previous response.
I will therefore expect you to comply by April 18, 2003, unless you inform
me immediately of some reasonable need for additional time.
The requested public report of information should no longer be
considered an alternative to your compliance with the demand for records.
The records should now be produced in any event. It is assumed that you
will independently report investor information to the public, as required by
regulations and your duties to shareholders.
Very truly
yours,
Peter F.
Brennan,
as
Delegate
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