 Batchelor wrote extensively, both works about the Ainu language and works in Ainu itself.He was the first to write in Ainu and use a writing system for it.Batchelor's translations of various books of the Bible were published from 1887, and his "New Testament" translation was published in Yokohama in 1897 by a joint committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the American Bible Society, and the National Bible Society of Scotland.