[letterhead of State Street Research]
August 4, 2000
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street N.W.
Judiciary Plaza
Washington, DC 20549
Re: State Street Research Income Trust
Securities Act of 1933 File No. 33-2697
Investment Company Act of 1940 File No. 811-4559
CIK 0000787980
Dear Sir or Madam:
The undersigned, STATE STREET RESEARCH INCOME TRUST, a Massachusetts
business trust (the "Registrant"), does hereby certify as follows:
(1) That the forms of prospectuses 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 most recent amendment to the
registration statement of the Registrant (Post-Effective Amendment No.
21 under the Securities Act; Amendment No. 22 under the Investment
Company Act of 1940) for the State Street Research High Income Fund
series of the Registrant and for the State Street Research Strategic
Growth & Income Fund series of the Registrant; and
(2) That the text of the most recent amendment to the Registrant's
registration statement has been filed electronically (EDGAR accession
number 0000950146-00-000741).
STATE STREET RESEARCH
INCOME TRUST
By:/s/ Darman A. Wing
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Darman A. Wing
Assistant Secretary
