[DESCRIPTION] Certification of no change in definitive
materials
[letterhead of State Street Research]
January 27, 1997
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 918572
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 most recent
amendment to the registration statement of the
Registrant (Post-Effective Amendment No. 6 under the
Securities Act; Amendment No. 7 under the Investment
Company Act of 1940) for the State Street Research
Strategic 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 0000950146-97-
000074).
STATE STREET RESEARCH
SECURITIES TRUST
By:/s/ Darman A. Wing
Darman A. Wing
Assistant Secretary
