Thank you so much. The deleted emails have been recovered to the Deleted Items folder. I don't know how they could have been deleted in the regular use of Hotmail. If I had manually deleted them myself, they should have appeared in the Deleted Items folder, not disappeared completely. And they weren't all from a specific date, but dated back over the past month or so, and so they are now interspersed in the Deleted Items folder, with other items that I did delete. I would have had to mark them and delete them from the inbox, then go thru the Deleted items folder and mark them and delete them again for them to just disappear completely. Makes no sense.
But, again, thank you for recovering them for me!