[letterhead of State Street Research]
May 2, 1997
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street N.W.
Judiciary Plaza
Washington, DC 20549
Re: State Street Research Growth Trust
Securities Act of 1933 File No. 33-55024
Investment Company Act of 1940 File No. 811-985
CIK 34918
Dear Sir or Madam:
The undersigned, STATE STREET RESEARCH GROWTH TRUST, a Massachusetts
business trust (the "Registrant"), does hereby certify as follows:
(1) That the form of prospectus and Statement of Additional Information
that would have been filed under paragraph (c) of Rule 497 of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), would not
have differed from that contained in the recent amendment to the
registration statement of the Registrant (Post-Effective Amendment No.
5 under the Securities Act; Amendment No. 22 under the Investment
Company Act of 1940) for the State Street Research Growth Fund series
of the Registrant; and
(2) That the text of the recent amendment to the Registrant's registration
statement has been filed electronically (EDGAR accession number
0000950146-97-000655).
STATE STREET RESEARCH
GROWTH TRUST
By:/s/ Darman A. Wing
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Darman A. Wing
Assistant Secretary
