A bound volume of official acknowledgments of gifts of manuscripts, books, periodicals, pamphlets, etc. made by George Eyre Evans to various libraries in the British Isles, 1901-1933; together with a list, in the autograph of George Eyre Evans, of the chairmen or librarians of such libraries.

A report by John Ballinger on a plan for the re-organisation of the Library of the University College of North Wales, Bangor; and a typescript article on 'Libraries and their functions - a pleas for an inquiry and a policy'.

An address by John Ballinger on 'The Work of Free Libraries', circa 1890.

An essay 'On the origin and progress of Free Libraries, and the advantages that would accrue by the adoption of the "Free Libraries Act" throughout the Principality', by 'Hope' (i.e. John Ballinger), 1880.

Papers relating to the British Library Advisory Council, 1976-1982, the Library Advisory Council (England), 1972-1981, and the Library Advisory Council for Wales, 1972-1982, comprising agenda and minutes of committee meetings, correspondence and newsletters, reports and memoranda; and copies of British Library News, 1979-1982.

Papers by John Ballinger:- 'Public Libraries in 1882'; 'Hopes and fears for libraries in Great Britain'; 'Notes on a library catalogue'; and 'Books for very young children'.

Reports by John Ballinger on the Library Association Conferences at Leeds, 1903, and Brighton, 1908; a draft letter to the Editor of the Saturday Review on free libraries and fiction, 1908; and a review of James Duff Brown: Manual of Library Economy, 1903.

A series of articles written by John Ballinger on 'A municipal library and its public'; and a letter by R. W. Atkinson, Penarth, 1908.