Hedge Fund Managers CORRESP Correspondence with SEC

August 23, 2007

Jenn Do, Esq.

Terence O’Brien, Esq.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549-7010

Re: Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Partners, LLC
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006
Filed April 2, 2007

File No. 0-50723

Dear Ms. Do and Mr. O’Brien:

On behalf of Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Partners, LLC (the “Company”), Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Strategies, LLC, the Managing Member of the Company, hereby confirms that:

                 1)   the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing;

                 2)   Staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to Staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and

                 3)   the Company may not assert Staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to call me at 212-357-2713.

Sincerely,

/s/ David S. Plutzer

David S. Plutzer

Vice President

cc:           Jennifer Barbetta

Noah Goldberg, Esq.

Robert Patenaude

Stuart Gelfond, Esq.

Paul D. Tropp, Esq.