Hi Paul
You gave me a fright there - as I mentioned a few weeks back (and have just followed up) I purchased a copy of "Steamboat Days" a few weeks ago - it would have been very upsetting in the museum had transcribed the entire 400 pages!. They've actually just done a couple of chapters or extracts therefrom - the full Hudson chapter in the book is over 50 pages long.
Regards
David