Two poems by William Edward Mayes (1831-1891) written during a voyage between Sydney and Singapore on the barque HARVEST HOME (1853) of London:

Acrostic poem written for his parents during the passage from Sourbaya (Surabaya) to Hong Kong and then Shanghai, between May and June 1858 (2 sheets):
‘With pleasure dear parents I write to inform you
In what part of the world I am in…’

Also a poem about the typhoon at Swatow (Shantou) on 21 September 1858 during which the HARVEST HOME was driven ashore, but later refloated (8 sheets):
‘Upon the China coast not long goodbye
A fleet of vessels did at anchor lie…’

The two poems feature in ‘Kewadin: William Edward Mayes and Two Trading Voyages in the 1870s’ by Michael E. Leveridge, Cambridge, 2015 (see PBH7479 in the Library collection).