SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, DC 20549

                         RULE 23C-2 NOTICE OF INTENTION
                              TO REDEEM SECURITIES

                                       OF

                              FLAHERTY & CRUMRINE/
                              CLAYMORE TOTAL RETURN
                                FUND INCORPORATED
                      301 E. Colorado Boulevard, Suite 720
                               Pasadena, CA 91101
                                 (626) 795-7300

                                    under the

                         Investment Company Act of 1940

                    Investment Company Act File No. 811-21380

                  The undersigned registered closed-end investment company
hereby notifies the Securities and Exchange Commission that it intends to redeem
securities of which it is the issuer, as set forth below in accordance with the
requirements of Rule 23c-2 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended,
and states that it is filing this notice with the Commission pursuant to
permission granted by the Commission's staff fewer than 30 days prior to the
date set for redemption.

(1)               TITLE OF THE CLASS OF SECURITIES OF FLAHERTY &
                  CRUMINE/CLAYMORE TOTAL RETURN FUND INCORPORATED (THE "FUND")
                  TO BE REDEEMED:

                  Auction Market Preferred Stock, Series T7 (CUSIP #338479207)
         and Series W28 (CUSIP #338479306), par value $.01 per share,
         liquidation preference of $25,000 per share (the "Preferred Stock").

(2) DATE ON WHICH THE SECURITIES ARE TO BE CALLED OR REDEEMED:

                           SERIES           DATE

                           T7               May 21, 2008

                           W28              June 12, 2008



(3)               APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THE GOVERNING INSTRUMENT PURSUANT TO
                  WHICH THE SECURITIES ARE TO BE CALLED OR REDEEMED:

                  The shares of Preferred Stock are to be redeemed pursuant to
         Part I, Articles 8(a) and 8(c), of the Fund's Articles Supplementary
         Establishing and Fixing the Rights and Preferences of Auction Market
         Preferred Stock.

(4)      THE NUMBER OF SHARES TO BE REDEEMED AND THE BASIS UPON WHICH THE SHARES
         TO BE REDEEMED ARE TO BE SELECTED:

         The Fund intends to redeem, by lot (as determined by the Depository
Trust Company), the number of outstanding shares of Preferred Stock set forth
below:

                           SERIES           NUMBER OF SHARES

                           T7               1,780

                           W28              1,780







                                    SIGNATURE

     Pursuant to the requirement of Rule 23c-2 of the Investment  Company Act of
1940, the Fund has duly caused this Notice of Intention to Redeem  Securities to
be signed on its  behalf by the  undersigned,  in the City of  Pasadena  and the
State of California, on this 1st day of May 2008.


                                            FLAHERTY & CRUMRINE/
                                            CLAYMORE TOTAL RETURN
                                            FUND INCORPORATED



                                            By:      /S/R. ERIC CHADWICK
                                            Name:    R. Eric Chadwick
                                            Title:   Chief Financial officer