Celebrated author Harper Lee wasn't known for mincing words, and in a newly released letter from decades ago, she had some choice ones for a property then owned by Donald Trump .
In fact, she suggested it was a lot like hell.
"The worst punishment God can devise for this sinner is to make her spirit reside eternally at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City," Lee wrote in a 1990 letter to her friend Doris Leapard.
The letter is currently up for sale at Nate D. Sanders Auctions .
While Lee's letter was penned just a few months after the casino opened, Trump's Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy the following year . The Taj Mahal kept the Trump name, but it is currently owned by billionaire Carl Icahn , who took control after the casino emerged from Chapter 11 earlier this year.
Lee died last month at the age of 89 , less than a year after the publication of her second book, "Go Set A Watchman ."
Although Lee fiercely guarded her privacy, she was by many accounts a prolific letter-writer and the auction includes 29 of her missives. As of publication time, the high bid for the letter that mentions the Taj Mahal is $1,330. The auction ends on Thursday evening.
Editor's note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar , rampant xenophobe , racist , misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims -- 1.6 billion members of an entire religion -- from entering the U.S.
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