Misplaced mail - how do I put it back where it belongs?

Today, in order to reduce the size of my In Box, I created a new mailbox named "Old Mail-before 6", then selected the contents of my inbox dated before June 2005, and used the "move to" command to move these items (about half the contents of the inbox) to the new mailbox.
Alas, something went seriously wrong. In the Mail program I now have an apparently empty mailbox called "OLD MAIL - before 6", which in turn contains an empty folder named "1", which in turn contains a blued-in folder named "05" - which contains nothing.
A search into users>myname>library>Mail>Mailboxes ... leads me to a folder "OLD MAIL -before 6", and that folder contains a folder named "1" and three documents: "Incoming Mail", "Incoming Mail Table of Contents" and "Info.plist". Folder "1" contains an mbox–"05.mbox"– and an "info.plist" document. From what I can tell, the "incoming Mail" document (11 MB) has the text content of the messages I tried to move, but it's now outside the mbox package, and I can't figure out how to stuff it into that mbox or any other. When I open the mbox package in question, I find only 3 files: "content_index", "inflo.plist" and "tableof:contents".
I suspect I made this happen somehow because I tried to change the name of the new mailbox at an inopportune moment in the process. My original name "Old Mail -before 6/1/05" was too long, so I shortened it to "Old Mail - before 6".

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