I accidentally deleted a message thread from my desktop iMessage

and I've looked in the trash and it's not in there. It is, however, still on my iphone. I've been saving chats from my desktop (mac air running Mavericks) by going to print and saving as a pdf. If I could save from my iphone this would be no problem. I sense there is some extremely easy answer to this??? and its just unknown to me.
How can I reclaim this chat?

You can only restore the whole message database, not individual messages or conversations. This procedure will replace the database with an earlier version, so you'll lose all later changes.
Sign out of iMessage and all other IM accounts, if any. Quit Messages. Hold down the option key and select
Go ▹ Library
from the Finder menu bar. A folder window will open.
Restore the subfolder named "Messages" from a backup that predates the unwanted changes, then log out and log back in.
If you're running OS X 10.9 or later, delete the subfolder Containers/com.apple.iChat.
If you don't have a backup, the archive can't be restored.

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