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Key words: private letter, phraseology, stylistic phenomena, idiolect, Sienkiewicz This article contains an analysis of structure, form and function of collocations included in 1400 Henryk Sienkiewicz’s private letters. The wide collection of over 450 collocations creates five semantic categories: health, travelling, finances, people (appearance, behaviour), feelings and emotions. In formal and structural terms the collected material contains collocations in canonical and modified form.