HT201250 Find Mail message in time machine

I'm trying to find a specific message on Time Machine but each time I click on a previous day the window resorts itself and makes the window smaller so that I have to re sort to see if my sender is there. Can I restrict the search to only my sender?
Thanks

Enter a search in the Mail browser window, then enter Time Machine. The results of the search will be shown in each snapshot.

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