Nuveen Massachusetts Dividend Advantage Municipal Fund
                             333 West Wacker Drive
                            Chicago, Illinois 60606



                              June 20, 2000

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549

Re:  Nuveen Massachusetts Dividend Advantage Municipal Fund (CIK: 0001090120)
     Request for Withdrawal of Registration Statement on Form N-2
     File Nos. 333-82979, 811-09451

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     On July 16, 1999, Nuveen Massachusetts Dividend Advantage Municipal Fund
(the "Registrant") filed a registration statement on Form N-2 relating to the
registration of common shares of beneficial interest of Nuveen Massachusetts
Dividend Advantage Municipal Fund (accession number 0000950131-99-004349).  The
registration statement has been on file with the Commission for more than nine
months and has not yet become effective.  Accordingly, the SEC notified the
Registrant by letter dated May 22, 2000 that, pursuant to Rule 479 under the
Securities Act of 1933, the registration statement would be abandoned if the
Registrant did not within 30 days file a substantive amendment, withdraw the
registration, or provide the staff a satisfactory explanation as to why either
of the previous options cannot be accomplished.

     Pursuant to Rule 477(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
hereby requests the withdrawal of the above mentioned Form N-2 for Nuveen
Massachusetts Dividend Advantage Municipal Fund.

                                   Sincerely,



                                   Nuveen Massachusetts Dividend Advantage
                                   Municipal Fund

                                        (Registrant)

                                   By:  /s/ Gifford R. Zimmerman
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                                        Gifford R. Zimmerman
                                        Vice President and Secretary