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SCHRODER CAPITAL FUNDS (DELAWARE)
Two Portland Square
Portland, Maine 04101
July 7, 1997
VIA EDGAR
Securities and Exchange Commission
Office of Document Control
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Schroder Capital Funds (Delaware) ("Registrant")
File Nos. 2-34215, 811-1911
CIK: 0000019532
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule 497(j) under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "1933 Act"),
the undersigned hereby certifies that the form of prospectuses and statement
of additional information relating to the Schroder International Smaller
Companies Fund series of the Registrant that would have been filed under
paragraph (c) of Rule 497 under the 1933 Act would not have differed from
that contained in the most recent amendment to the Registrant's registration
statement, dated June 30, 1997, which was filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission via EDGAR on June 30, 1997, accession number
0001004402-97-000030.
Sincerely,
Schroder Capital Funds (Delaware)
By: /s/ Catherine S. Wooledge
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Catherine S. Wooledge, Assistant Treasurer
and Assistant Secretary
