How do I retrieve and reinstall emails from Time Machine?(OS,10.9.3,Mavericks)

In BT,'s recent,break from,Yahoo to set up BT Mail all my email from 4 email boxes (going back to 2009) have disappeared from my mac. BT can't find them and I can't see them in Time Machine Backups. I'm desperate as I need many of this and last year's emails in order to check bank statements and to do my Tax Return.Please could anyone help me?

Do a backup.
Quit Mail.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Go to Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/V2. Enter Time Machine and you can search from there.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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