Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company

811 Main Street, 14th Floor

Houston, Texas 77002

(713) 493-2020

May 6, 2014

VIA EDGAR [CORRESPONDENCE FILING]

Mr. Edward P. Bartz

Staff Attorney

United States Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Investment Management

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

Re: Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company

Registration Statement on Form N-14

(File Nos. 333-195175 & 811-21593)

Dear Mr. Bartz:

Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company (the “Fund”) hereby requests that the effective date of the above-referenced Fund’s Registration Statement on Form N-14 be accelerated so that it may become effective by 9:00 a.m., Washington, D.C. time, on Friday, May 9, 2014, or as soon thereafter as practicable.

The Fund acknowledges the following: (1) should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; (2) the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Fund from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and (3) the Fund may not assert this action as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

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Mr. Edward P. Bartz

May 6, 2014

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Very truly yours,
Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company
By:	/s/ Terry A. Hart
	Terry A. Hart
	Chief Financial Officer

cc: Kevin S. McCarthy, Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company David J. Shladovsky, Esq., Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company David A. Hearth, Esq. John F. Della Grotta, Esq.