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State Street Research Investment Services, Inc.
One Financial Center
Boston, Massachusetts 02111
July 5, 2000
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Judiciary Plaza
Washington, DC 20549
Re: State Street Research Financial Trust
Securities Act of 1933 Registration No. 33-10327
Investment Company Act of 1940 File No. 811-4911
CIK No. 0000806390
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, STATE STREET RESEARCH FINANCIAL TRUST, a Massachusetts
business trust (the "Registrant"), does hereby certify as follows:
(1) That the forms 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 most recent amendment to the
registration statement of the Registrant (Post-Effective Amendment No.
35 under the Securities Act; Amendment No. 36 under the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended) for the State Street Research
IntelliQuant Portfolios: Small Cap Value and State Street Research
Health Sciences 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 0000950146-00-000702).
STATE STREET RESEARCH
FINANCIAL TRUST
By: /s/ Darman A. Wing
Darman A. Wing
Assistant Secretary
