Editing American Notes (section)

==Title==

According to Dickens's biographer [[Michael Slater]], the title ''American Notes for General Circulation'' may have been a joke at the expense of American currency. The end of the [[Second Bank of the United States]] and the ensuing [[Panic of 1837]] led to widespread bank failures and rendered much paper currency worthless.<ref>{{cite book|last=Slater|first=Michael|title=Charles Dickens|url=https://archive.org/details/charlesdickens0000slat|url-access=registration|year=2009|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-11207-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/charlesdickens0000slat/page/201 201]}}</ref>