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FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
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		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000830622
		IRS NUMBER:				046584465
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0930

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		STREET 1:		ONE POST OFFICE SQ
		CITY:			BOSTON
		STATE:			MA
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SIGNATURE   JANET C. SMITH
TITLE       PRINC. ACCT. OFFICER

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<TEXT>

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Trustees and Shareholders
Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust:

In planning and performing our audits of the financial
statements of the Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust
(the Fund) as of and for the year ended September 30, 2009,
in accordance with the standards of the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board (United States), we considered
the Funds internal control over financial reporting,
including controls over safeguarding securities, as a basis
for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of
expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to
comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, but not for the
purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the
Funds internal control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and
maintaining effective internal control over financial
reporting.  In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and
judgments by management are required to assess the expected
benefits and related costs of controls.  A companys internal
control over financial reporting is a process designed to
provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of
financial reporting and the preparation of financial
statements for external purposes in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles. A companys
internal control over financial reporting includes those
policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance
of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly
reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of
the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that
transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation
of financial statements in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and
expenditures of the company are being made only in
accordance with authorizations of management and directors
of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance
regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized
acquisition, use, or disposition of the companys assets that
could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over
financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to
future periods are subject to the risk that controls may
become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that
the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may
deteriorate.

A deficiency in internal control over financial reporting
exists when the design or operation of a control does not
allow management or employees, in the normal course of
performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect
misstatements on a timely basis. A material weakness is a
deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal
control over financial reporting, such that there is a
reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of a
Funds annual or interim financial statements will not be
prevented or detected on a timely basis.

Our consideration of the Funds internal control over
financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in
the first paragraph and would not necessarily disclose all
deficiencies in internal control that might be material
weaknesses under standards established by the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board (United States).  However, we
noted no deficiencies in the Funds internal control over
financial reporting and its operation, including controls
over safeguarding securities that we consider to be a
material weakness as defined above as of September 30, 2009.

This report is intended solely for the information and use
of management and the Board of Trustees of the Putnam Master
Intermediate Income Trust and the Securities and Exchange
Commission and is not intended to be and should not be used
by anyone other than these specified parties.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Boston, Massachusetts
November 16, 2009





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<FILENAME>shholdermeeting074.txt
<TEXT>
Shareholder meeting results (unaudited)
January 29, 2009 annual meeting
At the meeting, each of the nominees for Trustees was elected, as
follows:
				Votes for 				Votes withheld
Jameson A. Baxter 		52,770,644 			5,428,717
Charles B. Curtis 		52,783,549 			5,415,812
Robert J, Darretta 		52,751,878 			5,447,483
Myra R. Drucker 		52,772,846 			5,426,515
Charles E. Haldeman, Jr. 	52,730,313 			5,469,048
John A. Hill 			52,770,297 			5,429,064
Paul L. Joskow 			52,751,987 			5,447,374
Elizabeth T. Kennan 		52,747,239 			5,452,122
Kenneth R. Leibler 		52,735,929 			5,463,432
Robert E. Patterson 		52,753,000 			5,446,361
George Putnam, III 		52,666,563 			5,532,798
Robert L. Reynolds 		52,643,403 			5,555,958
Richard B. Worley 		52,779,617 			5,419,744

All tabulations are rounded to the nearest whole number.
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