The phrase "a private text" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a message or written communication that is intended for a specific individual or group and not meant for public sharing.
Example: "Please make sure to send me a private text if you have any sensitive information to share."
Alternatives: "a confidential message" or "a personal message".
Winterson, an adopted child herself, writes in the epilogue that the play has been a "private text" for her experience as a foundling, especially in its final movement toward forgiveness.
Like his grandfather and father, the narrator is writing a private text, a "diary", also in the sense that Laub's novel is not paginated but consists of numbered paragraphs and some longer "notes".
TipTalk lets them set a price for a private text, photo or video response.
Re "Privacy in the Cellular Age" (editorial, June 19), about a Supreme Court decision holding that the privacy of a public employee was not violated when a supervisor searched through private text messages: The employee lost, and so did the privacy rights of many people now using new communications technologies.
An extra-marital affair, a guilty plea and some private text messages later: are politicians private lives always relevant to the public?
Bare bones Fleck is the most basic of the annotation services, letting you simply post public or private text notes on a page.
This site enables managers to follow up on any comment or rating by means of a private online text conversation with the employee concerned.
Formerly the manager at Cardiff City, Mackay lost the chance to take over at Crystal Palace in August when the Welsh club forwarded a dossier to the FA which included several private text conversations between him and his then head of recruitment, Iain Moody.
The LMA said in its statement: "In the course of a search by the club in early 2014 of 10,000 private text messages sent to and from another member of staff during Mr Mackay's employment at Cardiff, in relation to other matters, it emerged that Malky had, it seems, sent a couple of one-line texts that were, with the benefit of hindsight, very regrettable and disrespectful of other cultures.
Twitter, in particular, creates a seductive illusion of intimacy: stars and fans exchanging public notes that resemble private text messages.
Dutton had demanded that the former speaker, Peter Slipper, resign over sexist comments made in private text messages.
