Mac Mail - Missing Drafts

Hi Guys,
Recently I took a trip overseas. During this trip I decided to keep a bit of a travel diary using my iphone (4) and my mail account (gmail through the mail app). Each time I would edit the diary as a draft in my mail acount, creating a new draft so that if one got deleted, I still had something to rebuild from. This worked well and I found myself iwth numerous drafts saved upon my return.
Recentlt I went to review the drafts and make a bit of an effort editing them to find that I can't locate them in Mac Mail (I run MacBook 13" before they becme Macbook Pro's, on OS X Lion).
The thing I find strange is that non-related drafts prior to and immediately after the drafts I am looking for are still in my draft mail box.
I have tried looking in the library folders and still cannot locate the emails I'm trying to find. I use time machine but as I wasn't using my laptop overseas there are no backups in that time period.
Does anyone have anythoughts as to how I may locate these files and/or what may have caused this issue?
I've looked in gmail without using mac mail, to no avail.
The only other way I can think of is by prying into my iPhone mail back ups, but again as I was OS I didn't back up the iphone to my mac. Aside from this, being able to dig deep into my iphone is beyond my skill level unless guided, so I thought I'd put it out here for some mac hero's to help me recover some memories!
Any help or guidance would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Braedos

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