[letterhead of State Street Research & Management Company,
One Financial Center, Boston, MA 02111]
September 4, 1996
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street N.W.
Judiciary Plaza
Washington, DC 20549
Re: State Street Research Securities Trust
Securities Act of 1933 File No. 33-74628
Investment Company Act of 1940 File No. 811-8322
CIK 0000918572
Dear Sir or Madam:
The undersigned, STATE STREET RESEARCH SECURITIES 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 recent amendment to the
registration statement of the Registrant (Post-Effective Amendment No. 5
under the Securities Act; Amendment No. 6 under the Investment Company
Act of 1940) for the State Street Research Intermediate Bond 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
0000950146-96-001450).
STATE STREET RESEARCH
SECURITIES TRUST
By:/s/ Amy L. Simmons
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Amy L. Simmons
Assistant Secretary
