We can roughly categorize the written material that is part of a family heritage in three groups: 1) unpublished materials such as personal letters and official correspondence; 2) publications by or about family members, and 3) publications that were read by family members and influenced them significantly.
1. Unpublished Materials
I plan to add some letters later on...
2. Family Publications
The downstairs library of Bailiwick has "books" on the wall that link to copies in Google Books or elsewhere on the Web:
Around the World Tour of Christian Missions: A Universal Survey
By William Folwell Bainbridge
C. R. Blackall, 1882
http://books.google.com/books?id=fZ5FAAAAIAAJ
Self-giving: A Story of Christian Missions
By William Folwell Bainbridge
D. Lothrop, 1883
http://books.google.com/books?id=EU0XAAAAYAAJ
Helping the Helpless in Lower New York
By Lucy Seaman Bainbridge
Revell, 1917
http://books.google.com/books?id=aOMkAAAAYAAJ
Jewels from the Orient
By Lucy Seaman Bainbridge
Published by Fleming H. Revell, 1920
http://books.google.com/books?id=ChY3AAAAMAAJ
A Compend of Operative Gynecology: Based on Lectures in the Course of Operative Gynecology on the Cadaver at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital
By William Seaman Bainbridge and Harold D. Meeker
The Grafton Press, 1906
http://books.google.com/books?id=aq0VAAAAYAAJ
The Cancer Problem
By William Seaman Bainbridge
Macmillan, 1918
http://books.google.com/books?id=2PcRAAAAYAAJ
Demon Possession and Allied Themes: Being an Inductive Study of Phenomena of Our Own Times
By John Livingston Nevius
Fleming H. Revell, 1896
http://books.google.com/books?id=US8SAAAAYAAJ
From Tokio Through Manchuria with the Japanese
By Louis Livingston Seaman
D. Appleton and Company, 1905
http://books.google.com/books?id=AywQAAAAYAAJ
The Real Triumph of Japan, the Conquest of the Silent Foe
By Louis Livingston Seaman
D. Appleton and Company, 1906
http://books.google.com/books?id=uUYOAAAAYAAJ
The following rather famous little book describes the practice of Dr. William Seaman Bainbridge, calling him "Dr. Z."
"Speaking of Operations--"
By Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
George H. Doran Company, 1915
http://books.google.com/books?id=_u8HAAAAIAAJ
In the upstairs bedroom of Bailiwick that belonged to William Sims Bainbridge when he was a small boy, is a copy of the book Goals in Space that he published as an adult, based on his childhood dreams of flying to other planets.
3. Publications that Were Read by Family Members
The same upstairs bedroom has copies of six Edgar Rice Burroughs novels read by William Sims Bainbridge as a boy, and that helped influence him to become a social scientist, because of their anthropological character:
Tarzan the Terrible
http://books.google.com/books?id=FaoSAAAAYAAJ
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
http://books.google.com/books?id=QyggAAAAMAAJ
The Beasts of Tarzan
http://books.google.com/books?id=KKSeMHR3EFwC
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
http://books.google.com/books?id=4sBEAAAAIAAJ
The Son of Tarzan
http://books.google.com/books?id=2xMPAAAAIAAJ
The Return of Tarzan
http://books.google.com/books?id=LtOmCdYVvh8C