[letterhead of State Street Research]
November 5, 1997
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street N.W.
Judiciary Plaza
Washington, DC 20549
Re: State Street Research Equity Trust
Securities Act of 1933 File No. 33-4296
Investment Company Act of 1940 File No. 811-4624
CIK 790941
Dear Sir or Madam:
The undersigned, STATE STREET RESEARCH EQUITY TRUST, a Massachusetts
business trust (the "Registrant"), does hereby certify as follows:
(1) That the forms of prospectuses and Statements 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. 20 under the Securities Act; Amendment
No. 21 under the Investment Company Act of 1940) for the State Street Research
Equity Investment Fund series of the Registrant and for the State Street
Research Global Resources 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
0001029869-97-001250).
STATE STREET RESEARCH
EQUITY TRUST
By:/s/ Darman A. Wing
Darman A. Wing
Assistant Secretary
