The contents were 1441 pages of almost exclusively typewritten text. There are very few images, mostly a few simple maps and line drawings. No photos. The vast majority of the work was not actually written by Mrs. Williams and consists of contributions made by other researchers, abstracts of censuses, quotes from books, and many other public records. The FHLC lists it thus:
CALL NUMBER
US/CAN
FICHE AREA
6055352
TITLE
The Franklin fireplace. -- Vol. 1 no. 1 (May 1968)-.
PUBLICATION INFORMATION
Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971-1987.
FORMAT
22 microfiches + on 1 microfilm reel; 11 x 15 cm. + 35 mm.
NOTES
Quarterly.
Microreproduction of periodical published: Warrensburg, Missouri: B.H.
Williams, 1968-1975. 8 v. Editor: Betty Harvey (Mrs. Robert) Williams
CONTENTS
Includes name and locality indexes. Some indexes are combined for the
two periodicals “The Franklin fireplace” and “Crook’s Crier.”
LIBRARY HOLDINGS
Vol. 1 (1968) - vol. 8 (1976).
US/CAN
ADDITIONAL COPIES
FICHE AREA
Another filming of v. 2 #3 (Nov.1969) ----------------------- 6047841
and v. 4 #2 (Aug.1971), 1987.
US/CAN
FILM AREA
Another filming of v.1 #1-3 (1968), 1971. ------------------- 0873158
item 5
THIS RECORD FOUND UNDER
1. Franklin
I. Williams, Betty Harvey
II. Cook’s crier
It appears that at least some of it is in Google Books, but is available only via Limited Preview.
If you have any specific queries from it, I'd be happy to send you all the pages that refer to your query, as long as the answer only involves a few pages. Please note that many of the contributors to FF have also contributed their current research results to FFRU. Most of the backissues of FFRU are available on the FFRU website. In addition a great number of the abstracted records are also found in these free, downloadable back issues of FFRU.
The first editor of FFRU, Elaine Giddens, had a copy of FF and quoted
from it extensively. I will be using parts of FF for future articles
of FFRU, until the majority of the material in it is re-researched, and
re-published. For instance, data from FF formed the nucleus of the 1850
Alabama Census article found in FFRU Volume 36. I re-read all of
the original census records and corrected what was, to me, a surprising
number of errors in FF, and then annotated the census records with various
other records.
* I'm not sure of the exact nature of the claims about copyright in this
specific instance. The majority of the material consists of reprints of
materials that were not written by the editor. The author's in-line comments are
very insightful, useful and are certainly covered by copyright, but the
materials that she is merely reprinting are obviously not written by her.
On the other hand, as a compilation, the entire work is covered by
copyright and cannot be reproduced as such without Ms. Williams' permission.
It should be noted that FFRU is a publication similar in composition to FF, and thus, only in the cases of articles that have been written by me, Elaine Giddens, or Johynne Carlson (the editors) can we claim copyright, but the entire work is covered as a compilation.
All of this is moot for FFRU, because copies of the backissues are
available for free by download from this website and through the FHL/FHC system.