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The researcher you are asking about was Samuel Willett Comstock whose research included Crippens. A book was never published but his notebook was microfilmed by LDS and is available at the Family History Centers. According to the Crippen family trails website:
"Samuel Willett Comstock of Devon, Connecticut, was one of the first family researchers to compile a substantial volume of Crippen records. Hoping to publish his manuscript, dated 1946/47, Mr. Comstock died before that was possible. One of Mr. Comstock's heirs kept his material which included his written manuscript and his years worth of correspondence with various family researchers and county officials.
In the 1960s the collection was purchased by Kathryn (Crippen) Warner and her husband Russell, of Eaton Rapids, Michigan — leaders of a new generation of Crippen family researchers. Hoping to correct, add to and finally complete the family history, this dream was also cut short by the early death of Mrs. Warner on 4 May 1973.
Much of Mrs. Warner's work had concentrated on the Michigan area descendants, so those lines of the family are nearly complete. But the branches who migrated to other areas of the country, as the generations continued to produce more and more descendants, are the untold story.
The Russell's collection of material was microfilmed by the Church of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) and is available to any Crippen researcher. It is unknown if the two reels of microfilm contain all of the Russell's work, but it does contain a substantial portion at least. Also included on these films is a copy of Comstock's manuscript and many of his notes. "
So both Mr. Comstock's notes and Mrs. Warner's work is available through LDS. It is also at the Library of Michigan in Lansing MI in their archives.
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