Deleted hotmail account – how to recover old emails

Several months ago but less than a year I tried to close my account.   I need to recover the emails as something very important is in need of retrieving.  I noticed when I went to the close the account it said it would be possible to recover emails withing a certain time period.  I am hoping I can still do this.  Is there anyone that can help me to figure this out?  My account is still active, I can still log in.  It did not close down.