At the urging of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eliza Clapp contributed several poems to the Transcendental magazine, The Dial. She was also a Sunday school teacher and included examples of her lessons in the book, Words in a Sunday School. She published two other works, Studies in Religion and Essays, Letters, and Poems. Clapp moved to Percival Street after selling the house she had lived in with her parents, which was located where the Strand Theater is now. Her home on Percival Street was featured on the first episode of the GBH program, This Old House.
